USGS 18078 (Santee LS, S. Carolina) (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Dorchester 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: Santee Limestone Formation, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal wackestone and grainstone

• bryozoan biomicrudite/biosparrudite

Reposited in the USGS

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 5464: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 04.10.1999

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Clypeasteroida - Protoscutellidae
Periarchus lyelli Conrad 1834 sand dollar