C. C. Bentley, J. L. Knight, and M. A. Knoll 



Cement Plant pit near Harleyville, South Carolina. This is the second 

 (Bentley and Knight 1993) in a series of papers that reports the various 

 taxonomic assemblages collected from this site. 



The Giant Cement Plant, located about 5 km north-northeast of 

 Harleyville, South Carolina (Fig. 1), is in Dorchester County, about 

 1 km from Interstate 26 at the Harleyville exit (33°14'N,80°26'W). It 

 is a large, open-pit mine, in operation for the past 45 years. The stratigraphic 

 assignments for the large exposures of middle Eocene Santee Limestone, 

 which is exploited for cement products, were determined by Sanders 

 (1974), who discussed the marine vertebrate and invertebrate material 

 collected from the pit. Based on reports from Cooke and MacNeil 

 (1952) and Malde (1959), Sanders (1974) refers to the layer which 



Fig.l. Location of the Ardis local fauna. 



