Also known as Cross Quarry, Martin Marietta Aggregates Quarry

Where: Berkeley County, South Carolina (33.3° N, 80.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.7° N, 68.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Santee Limestone Formation, Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)

• from the Cubitostrea sellaeformis zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Collection methods: surface (float), sieve,

Primary reference: R. S. Banks. 1978. Stratigraphy of the Eocene Santee Limestone in three quarries of the Coastal Plain of South Carolina. Geologic Notes 21(3):85-149 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 32901: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 17.07.2003, edited by Austin Hendy, Matthew Carrano, Marko Manojlovic and Matthew Clapham

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