ammonites
Sta. 10412 - Yeamans Hall [Waccamaw Fm] (Pleistocene of the United States)

Also known as Loc. 237

Where: Berkeley County, South Carolina (32.9° N, 80.0° W: paleocoordinates 32.9° N, 79.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Waccamaw Formation, Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Waccamaw Fm. AGE: Late Pliocene-Early Pleistocene, but here assigned to the Early Pleistocene following DuBar (1971). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From bed 8 ft above low tide in the section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, yellow marl

• ENVIRONMENT: Shallow marine, shelfal siliciclastic.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Soft yellowish marl. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, assumed on the basis of age and facies description.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite

Collected by Cooke in 1922

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTORS: C.W. Cooke, 1922. REPOSITORIES: Unknown.

Primary reference: C. W. Cooke. 1936. Geology of the Coastal Plain of South Carolina. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 837 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy] more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92410: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 10.11.2009

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