USGS 18353 (Warley Hill Fm./Santee LS, S. Carolina) (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Berkeley County, South Carolina (33.4° N, 80.1° W: paleocoordinates 33.7° N, 68.7° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)

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

• bryozoan biomicrudite/biosparrudite (santee ls); bryozoan biosparrudite or glauconite limestone (warley hill)

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 5478: 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 conradi
Protoscutella conradi Cotteau 1891 sand dollar
 Cassiduloida - Neolampadidae
Eurhodia rugosa, Santeelampas oviformis
Eurhodia rugosa Ravenel 1848 sea urchin
Eurhodia rugosa rugosa
Santeelampas oviformis Clark and Twitchell 1915 sea urchin
found in Warley Hill Fm. seds
 Cidaroida - Cidaridae
Cidaris pratti
Cidaris pratti Clark and Twitchell 1915 pencil urchin