Where: Orangeburg County, South Carolina (33.5° N, 80.5° W: paleocoordinates 33.6° N, 71.4° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Cubitostrea sellaeformis/Pteropis lapidosa zone, Santee Limestone Formation, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)
• This collection is from the upper part of the Santee Fm.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, shelly/skeletal grainstone and wackestone
Primary reference: R. J. Powell and G. R. Baum. 1982. Eocene biostratigraphy of South Carolina and its relationship to Gulf Coastal Plain zonations and global changes of coastal onlap. Geological Society of America Bulletin 93:1099-1108 [A. Miller/K. Layou]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 5343: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 27.09.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Asteroidea | |
Recurvaster sp. Brünnich-Nielsen 1943 sea star | |
Echinoidea | |
Protoscutella conradi Cotteau 1891 sand dollar | |
Cidaris pratti Clark and Twitchell 1915 pencil urchin | |
Bivalvia | |
"Crassatellites sp." = Crassatella
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Lucina sp. Bruguière 1797 clam | |
"Arcacea indet." = Arcoidea
"Arcacea indet." = Arcoidea Lamarck 1809 clam | |
Spondylus lamellacea Kellum 1926 scallop
Chlamys spp. Röding 1798 scallop | |
Cubitostrea sellaeformis Conrad 1832 oyster
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
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Fusinus abruptus true whelk | |
Puncturella sp. Lowe 1827 puncturella |