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
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 5484: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 04.10.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Coelopleurus infulatus Morton 1833 sea urchin |