USGS 19018 (Warley Hill Fm, S. Carolina) (Eocene of the United States)

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: Warley Hill Formation, Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; glauconitic, shelly/skeletal grainstone and limestone

• bryozoan biosparrudite/glauconitic limestone

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 5469: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 04.10.1999

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Taxonomic list

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Echinoidea
 Clypeasteroida - Protoscutellidae
Protoscutella mississippiensis
Protoscutella mississippiensis Clark and Twitchell 1915 sand dollar
 Cassiduloida - Neolampadidae
Santeelampas oviformis
Santeelampas oviformis Clark and Twitchell 1915 sea urchin