Also known as Martin Marietta Orangeburg Quarry

Where: Berkeley County, South Carolina (33.3° N, 80.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.7° N, 68.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Santee Limestone Formation, Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)

• From Santee Formation, which is overlain unconformably by the Cross Formation, or Cross Member of the Santee Formation. The Santee Formation is also considered to be equivalent in age to the "McBean" Formation, while the Cross Formation is a down-dip equivalent of the lower Clinchfield Formation. The contact between the Santee Formation (s.s.) and the Cross Formation is approximately equivalent to the contact between the Lisbon Formation and Gosport Sand in the Gulf Coast. These are of Claibornian age=Lutetian (late Middle Eocene).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified, ferruginous, glauconitic, gray, white limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, original calcite

Reposited in the ANSP, USNM

Collection methods: salvage, quarrying, surface (float),

• Collections reposited at the University of North Carolina, USNM, and ANSP. Some new collecting by D. Campbell.

Primary reference: D. Campbell. 1995. New molluscan faunas from the Eocene of South Carolina. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 27:119-152 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 52344: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 03.08.2005, edited by Matthew Clapham

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