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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Thecostraca | |
Euscalpellum carolinensis n. sp.
Euscalpellum carolinensis n. sp. Zullo and Baum 1981 barnacle |