Where: Berkeley County, South Carolina (33.4° N, 80.2° W: paleocoordinates 33.8° N, 68.7° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Santee Limestone Formation, Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal wackestone and grainstone
Primary reference: P. M. Kier. 1980. The Echinoids of the Middle Eocene Warley Hill Formation, Santee Limestone, and Castle Hayne Limestone of North and South Carolina. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 39:1-102 [A. Miller/K. Layou]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 5463: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 04.10.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
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Santeelampas oviformis Clark and Twitchell 1915 sea urchin | |
Protoscutella mississippiensis Clark and Twitchell 1915 sand dollar | |
Eupatagus sp. Agassiz 1847 heart urchin |