Santee Portland Cement Co. quarry: Priabonian, South Carolina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea - Basilosauridae
Basilosauridae indet. Cope 1867
Uhen 2013
Chrysocetus healyorum n. gen., n. sp. Uhen and Gingerich 2001
1 individual
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:South Carolina County:Orangeburg
Coordinates: 33.3° North, 80.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.3° North, 72.5° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Priabonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 3
Key time interval:Priabonian
Age range of interval:38.00000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Tupelo Bay Member:Pregnall
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Stratigraphy comments: Uhen & Gingerich (2001) state that this is from the Cross Formation. Geisler et al (2005) place the Cross Formation as a member in the Tupelo Bay Formation. Geisler et al (2005) indicate that the Giant Portland Cement quarry is in the Pregnall Member, and Kier (1980) indicates a similar echinoid fauna (Periarchus lyelli), suggesting that this quarry is from the Pregnall Member as well, making it Priabonian.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal wackestone
Secondary lithology: grainstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: bryozoan biomicrudite/biosparrudite
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Holnam Quarry
Database number:122725
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2012-01-05 09:17:31 Last modified:2019-12-10 14:11:48
Access level:the public Released:2012-01-05 09:17:31
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

10468. M. D. Uhen and P. D. Gingerich. 2001. New genus of dorudontine archaeocete (Cetacea) from the Middle-to-Late Eocene of South Carolina. Marine Mammal Science 17(1):1-34 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

71195 L. B. Albright, A. E. Sanders, R. E. Weems, D. J. Cicimurri, and J. L. Knight. 2019. Cenozoic vertebrate biostratigraphy of South Carolina, U.S.A. and additions to the fauna. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 57(2):77-236 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
42488 M. D. Uhen. 2013. A review of North American Basilosauridae. Alabama Museum of Natural History Bulletin 31(2):1-45 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]