USGS 25169, 25170, 25859 (Santee LS, S. Carolina) (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Berkeley County, South Carolina (33.3° 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

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

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 5474: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 04.10.1999, edited by Marko Manojlovic

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Craniata
 Craniida - Craniidae
Isocrania sp. Jaekel 1902
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Megathyrididae
 Terebratulida - Terebratulidae
Plicatoria parva n. sp. Cooper 1988
 Terebratulida - Cancellothyrididae
Echinoidea
 Cidaroida - Cidaridae
Cidaris cf. pratti Clark and Twitchell 1915 pencil urchin
Cidaris cf. C. pratti
 Cassiduloida - Neolampadidae
Santeelampas oviformis Clark and Twitchell 1915 sea urchin
Eurhodia holmesi sea urchin
Eurhodia rugosa Ravenel 1848 sea urchin
Eurhodia rugosa rugosa
 Clypeasteroida - Protoscutellidae
Protoscutella conradi Cotteau 1891 sand dollar
Protoscutella cf. plana Conrad 1865 sand dollar
Protoscutella cf. P. plana
 Spatangoida - Schizasteridae
Linthia harmatuki Kier 1980 heart urchin
n. sp.
Linthia hanoverensis Kellum 1926 heart urchin
 Arbacioida - Arbaciidae
Coelopleurus infulatus Morton 1833 sea urchin