Martin Marietta Orangeburg Quarry (Cross Member) (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Orangburg County, South Carolina (33.3° N, 80.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.4° N, 71.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Cross Member (Tupelo Bay Formation), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: B. L. Beatty and J. H. Geisler. 2010. A stratigraphically precise record of Protosiren (Protosirenidae, Sirenia) from North America. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Palaeontologie. Abhandlungen 258(2):185-194 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 99752: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 20.11.2010

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Sirenia - Protosirenidae
Protosiren sp. Abel 1904 sirenian
GSM 1333, SC2015.65.1