NEW/ADDITIONAL LATE CRETACEOUS SOUTH CAROLINA BACULITES SPECIMENS

Sohl and Koch (1984) is the only published record of Baculites from the Late Cretaceous in South Carolina. Those specimens are/were stored at the U.S. National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. Regrettably, those specimens cannot be located (Mark Florence, pers. comm., February 6, 2020). Considering that the only published specimens of Baculites from South Carolina cannot be located, I am documenting all South Carolina Baculites that are stored/housed in any museum. All of the specimens have the dark brown phosphatic preservation similar to that found in fossils at the boundary between the Late Cretaceous Peedee Formation and the underlying Donoho Creek Formation at Burches Ferry, SC. One specimen (Horry County Museum #2019.15.1) contains some original(?) septa shell material. Additionally, in my approximately 30 years of dissolving Peedee Formation limestones in acetic acid searching for microvertebrates, I have not recovered a single Baculites specimen/fragment.

Sohl, Norman F. and Carl F. Koch. 1984. Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) Larger Invertebrates from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the Atlantic Coastal Plain with Further Data for the East Gulf. USGS Open File Report 87-194.