Orangeburg, bryozoan bioherm (Eocene of the United States)

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

• offshore bryozoan patch reefs and bioherms

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

• Bryozoans, the dominant organisms in the buildup, are not described
Anthozoa
 Hexacorallia -
Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900 stony coral
Bivalvia
  -
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Cubitostrea sellaeformis Conrad 1832 oyster
Cubitostrea lisbonensis Harris 1919 oyster
Brachiopoda
  -
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Malacostraca
 Decapoda -
Propinnotheroides orangeburgensis n. gen. n. sp. Bishop and Palmer 2006 crab