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
Gastropoda | |
Architectonica amoena sundial | |
Odostomia carolina snail | |
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Solariella tricostata Conrad 1833 snail | |
Scalina trapaquara wentletrap | |
Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta Solander 1766 slipper shell | |
Sinum inconstans moon snail
Sinum bilix Conrad 1833 moon snail | |
Caricella pyruloides Conrad 1832 volute | |
Agaronia alabamensis Conrad 1833 snail | |
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Terebrifusus amoenus Conrad 1833 true whelk | |
Trigonostoma aurorae snail
Bonellitia garvani snail | |
Daphnella imperita snail | |
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Scobinella (Moniliopsis) nassiformis, Eosurcula pulcherrima, Cochlespirella nana, Eopleurotoma plumbella, Eopleurotoma politica, "Coronia carodenta" = Gemmula (Coronia), "Coronia ludocarola" = Gemmula (Coronia)
Eosurcula pulcherrima turrid
Cochlespirella nana turrid
Eopleurotoma plumbella turrid
Eopleurotoma politica turrid
"Coronia carodenta" = Gemmula (Coronia) turrid
"Coronia ludocarola" = Gemmula (Coronia) turrid | |
Sulcocypraea vaughani Johnson 1899 snail | |
Serpulorbis squamulosus Conrad 1834 worm shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Nucula (Nucula) mauricensis Harris 1919 nut clam | |
Tellina (Arcopagia) raveneli Conrad 1846 tellin clam | |
Semele australina Harris 1919 clam | |
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Pteropsella lapidosa Conrad 1846 clam | |
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Crassatella rhomboidea Conrad 1846 clam | |
Barbatia (Plagiarca) rhomboidella Lea 1833 clam
Trinacria cuneus Conrad 1833 clam | |
Glycymeris (Glycymeris) idonea Conrad 1865 clam |