Where: Orangeburg County, South Carolina (33.4° N, 80.8° W: paleocoordinates 33.4° N, 72.8° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Crassatella alta/Chlamys cawcawensis zone, Cross Formation, Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)
• According to Powell and Baum, this collection also falls under the Periarchus lyelli faunal zone.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, shelly/skeletal wackestone and grainstone
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 5364: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 27.09.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Puncturella sp. Lowe 1827 puncturella | |
Calyptraea sp. Lamarck 1799 slipper shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Glycymeris sp. Da Costa 1778 clam | |
Chlamys spp. Röding 1798 scallop
Chlamys deshayesii Lea 1833 scallop | |
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Modiolus sp. Lamarck 1801 mussel | |
"Callista neusensis" = Meretrix neusensis
"Callista neusensis" = Meretrix neusensis Harris 1919 venus clam | |
Cardiidae indet. Lamarck 1809 cockle | |
"Crassatella alta" = Crassatella uvasana
"Crassatella alta" = Crassatella uvasana Conrad 1855 clam | |
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799 nut clam | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Terebratulina spp. d'Orbigny 1847 | |
Echinoidea | |
Cidaris pratti Clark and Twitchell 1915 pencil urchin |