Santee Portland Cement Co. [Cross Limestone Mbr, Santee Limestone] (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Orangeburg County, South Carolina (33.3° N, 80.4° W: paleocoordinates 33.3° N, 71.4° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cross Limestone Member (Santee Limestone Formation), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Cross Limestone Member of the Santee Limestone. AGE: Bartonian, following other collections.

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified, shelly/skeletal wackestone and lithified grainstone

• LITHOLOGY: bryozoan biomicrudite/biosparrudite. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of facies description.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

• COLLECTORS: Unknown. REPOSITORY: USNM

Primary reference: V. A. Zullo and G. R. Baum. 1981. Euscalpellum Hoek (Cirripedia: Scalpellidae) from the Eocene of North and South Carolina. South Carolina Geology 25(1):33-41 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 159934: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 12.08.2014

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Limited to taxa of taxonomic interest. NOMENCLATURE: From an authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature and species-resolution identifications.
Thecostraca
 Calanticomorpha - Calanticidae
Euscalpellum carolinensis n. sp. Zullo and Baum 1981 barnacle