Where: Orangeburg County, South Carolina (33.5° N, 80.9° W: paleocoordinates 33.6° N, 71.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: McBean Formation (Claiborne Group), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: mesofossils
Primary reference: K. V. Palmer and D. C. Brann. 1965. Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Peteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda. Bulletins of American Paleontology 48:1-471 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 92378: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 09.11.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Crassatella rhomboidea Conrad 1846 clam | |
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Pteropsella lapidosa Conrad 1846 clam | |
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Tellina (Arcopagia) raveneli Conrad 1846 tellin clam | |
Semele australina Harris 1919 clam | |
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Glycymeris (Glycymeris) idonea Conrad 1865 clam | |
Barbatia (Plagiarca) rhomboidella Lea 1833 clam
Trinacria cuneus Conrad 1833 clam | |
Nucula (Nucula) mauricensis Harris 1919 nut clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Odostomia carolina snail | |
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Architectonica amoena sundial | |
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Solariella tricostata Conrad 1833 snail | |
Serpulorbis squamulosus Conrad 1834 worm shell | |
Terebrifusus amoenus Conrad 1833 true whelk | |
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Eopleurotoma plumbella, Eopleurotoma politica, Cochlespirella nana, Eosurcula pulcherrima, Scobinella (Moniliopsis) nassiformis, "Coronia carodenta" = Gemmula (Coronia), "Coronia ludocarola" = Gemmula (Coronia)
Eopleurotoma plumbella turrid
Eopleurotoma politica turrid
Cochlespirella nana turrid
Eosurcula pulcherrima turrid
"Coronia carodenta" = Gemmula (Coronia) turrid
"Coronia ludocarola" = Gemmula (Coronia) turrid | |
Daphnella imperita snail | |
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Caricella pyruloides Conrad 1832 volute | |
Bonellitia garvani snail
Trigonostoma aurorae snail | |
Agaronia alabamensis Conrad 1833 snail | |
Sulcocypraea vaughani Johnson 1899 snail | |
Sinum inconstans moon snail
Sinum bilix Conrad 1833 moon snail | |
Scalina trapaquara wentletrap | |
Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta Solander 1766 slipper shell |