Report on the commencement and progress of the Agricultural survey of South-Carolina, for 1843

Ruffin, Edmund

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“…This often highly indurated, typically gray limestone was named "the Santee white limestone" by Charles Lyell, who, in the company of Edmund Ravenel in 1842, correctly determined that oysters he observed in outcrops near Eutaw Springs along the bank of the Santee River in Orangeburg County (now submerged) were of Eocene age (Lyell, 1845). Referred to as the "Great Carolina beds" by Ruffin (1843), the "Santee beds" by Tuomey (1848), and the "Santee marl" by Sloan (1908), it was Cooke (1936) who designated the exposures at Eutaw Springs as the type section of his Santee Limestone (Banks, 1977). The unit is widespread in the subsurface of the SC Coastal Plain, although normally exposed only in deep commercial quarries, such as those at the Martin Marietta Berkeley and Orangeburg quarries near Cross, SC.…”

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Cenozoic vertebrate biostratigraphy of South Carolina, U.S.A., and additions to the fauna

Albright,

Sanders,

Weems

et al. 2019

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Study of vertebrate fossils from the South Carolina Coastal Plain played a significant role in the early history of vertebrate paleontology as a scientific discipline in North America. However, a clear understanding of the state’s vertebrate biostratigraphy has been greatly hindered by the paucity of well-exposed fossil-bearing stratigraphic sections and a complicated subsurface stratigraphy. Most units, particularly those of Neogene and Quaternary age, exist as thin veneers of marine or estuarine sediments that typically occur as infilled topographic lows or erosional remnants as determined primarily from borehole stratigraphy. Hence, lateral continuity can be difficult to confirm over broad geographic areas often resulting inconfusion insofar as vertebrate fossil provenance is concerned. The evaluation of vertebrate fossils from the South Carolina Coastal Plain presented here, and of the geologic units from which they originated, or are thought to have originated, results in the first modern biostratigraphic framework for the known Cenozoic record of the state. Results provide (1) updated correlations of many units to the most recent, astronomically-tuned marine oxygen isotope stages; (2) the first viverravid from the Atlantic Coastal Plain, Didymictis proteus; (3) new information on the timing of certain Neotropical immigrants into the Southeast during the Great American Biotic Interchange, including the oldest record of Erethizon in this region and the oldest records of capybara in the USA; (4) the possible oldest record of the microtine rodent Allophaiomys pliocaenicus in the USA; (5) new details on the unit of origin for the type specimen of the archaeocete Dorudon serratus; and (6) new details on the ontogeny of the early odontocete Agorophius pygmaeus. New taxonomic records from South Carolina include Glyptotherium texanum, Holmesina floridanus, Ondatra idahoensis, Erethizon ?bathygnathum, Leopardus amnicola, Miracinonyx ?trumani, Canis lepophagus, Canis latrans, Phocanella pumila, Callophoca obscura, Monatherium sp., Anchippus texanus, Subhyracodon mitis, Aphelops ?malacorhinus, Teleoceras ?guymonense, and Perchoerus sp. New specimens of previously recorded taxa are also noted.

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Section: Ectoganus Gliriformis Lobdelli Fisherichthys Folmerimentioning

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Cenozoic vertebrate biostratigraphy of South Carolina, U.S.A., and additions to the fauna

Albright,

Sanders,

Weems

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“…Results of work begun by Lardner Vanuxem were published hi 1826. Edmund Ruffin (1843) continued the survey which culminated in 1848 with the first State geologic map, prepared by Michael Tuomey. A later map was made by Earle Sloan (1907Sloan ( , 1908 who gave an extensive list of mineral and fossil localities.…”

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Geology of the Charleston phosphate area, South Carolina

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1959

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Report on the commencement and progress of the Agricultural survey of South-Carolina, for 1843

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Cenozoic vertebrate biostratigraphy of South Carolina, U.S.A., and additions to the fauna

Cenozoic vertebrate biostratigraphy of South Carolina, U.S.A., and additions to the fauna

Geology of the Charleston phosphate area, South Carolina

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