Also known as Reef 3539
Where: Orangeburg County, South Carolina (33.5° N, 80.9° W: paleocoordinates 33.9° N, 69.3° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Santee Limestone Formation, Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: G. A. Bishop and B. T. Palmer. 2006. A new genus and species of crab from the bryozoan bioherms of the Eocene Santee Limestone, South Carolina, USA. Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geologicas 23(3):334-337 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 77066: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.12.2007, edited by Austin Hendy
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900 stony coral | |
Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Cubitostrea sellaeformis Conrad 1832 oyster
Cubitostrea lisbonensis Harris 1919 oyster | |
Brachiopoda | |
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805 | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
Malacostraca | |
Propinnotheroides orangeburgensis n. gen. n. sp.
Propinnotheroides orangeburgensis n. gen. n. sp. Bishop and Palmer 2006 crab |