Clark Quarry

Clark Quarry is a paleontological dig site in southern Georgia. The site first discovered fossils by the building of the Brunswick Canal in 1838-1839.^[1][2][3]

Geology

Clark Quarry is a cut and fill fluvial deposit overlying a marine sand, near Brunswick, Georgia, United States in Glynn County. The marine unit is characterized by a well-sorted, subrounded, low sphericity, fine- grained quartz arenite representing sediments of the Princess Anne Terrace.^[4] This site is in the pleistocene era on the geologic timescale.

Fossils

• Woodchuck–Marmota monax^[5]
• Bog lemming–Synaptomys cooperi^[5]
• Capybara–Hydrochoeris holmesi^[5]
• Florida or round-tailed muskrat–Neofiber alleni^[5]
• Rice rat–Oryzomys palustris^[5]
• Cotton rat–Sigmodon hispidus^[5]
• Harvest mouse–Reithrodontomys^[5]
• Columbian Mammoth-Mammuthus columbi^[2][4]
• Pleistocene Bison-Bison latifrons^[3][4]
• American Alligator-Alligator mississippiensis^[1]
• Nerodia sp^[1]
• Garter Snake-Thamnophis sp^[1]
• Giant Ground Sloth-Megatherium^[2]
• Mastodon-Mastodon giganteum^[2]
• Horse-Equus ferus^[2]
• White-tail deer-Odocoileus virginianus^[4]