Where: Orangeburg 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
Size class: macrofossils
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: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 5476: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 04.10.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Rhyncholampas sp. Agassiz 1869 sea urchin | |
Protoscutella plana Conrad 1865 sand dollar
Periarchus lyelli Conrad 1834 sand dollar | |
Maretia subrostrata heart urchin |