USGS 25867 (Santee Limestone, S. Carolina) (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Berkeley County, South Carolina (33.4° N, 80.1° W: paleocoordinates 33.4° N, 71.1° 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 5466: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 04.10.1999

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Cassiduloida - Neolampadidae
Eurhodia rugosa Ravenel 1848 sea urchin
Eurhodia rugosa rugosa