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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Gastropoda | |
"Calyptraea aperta" = Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta
"Calyptraea aperta" = Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta Solander 1766 slipper shell | |
Turritella ghigna turret shell
Mesalia claibornensis turret shell
"Turritella arenicola" = Kapalmerella arenicola Conrad 1865 turret shell | |
"Natica" sp. Scopoli 1777 moon snail | |
Cheilea sp. Modeer 1793 hoof shell | |
Serpulorbis squamulosus Conrad 1834 worm shell | |
"Distorsio septemdentata" = Distorsio septendentata
"Distorsio septemdentata" = Distorsio septendentata triton shell | |
Agaronia alabamensis Conrad 1833 snail | |
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"Clavilithes" abruptus snail | |
Caricella sp. Conrad 1835 volute
Caricella pyruloides Conrad 1832 volute
? Athleta ? cormacki volute
Santeevoluta wilmingtonensis Brown and Pilsbry 1912 volute | |
Conus smithvillensis Harris 1895 cone shell | |
Xenophora sp. Fischer von Waldheim 1807 carrier shell | |
Cypraeorbis alabamensis de Gregorio 1890 cowry | |
Ficus affinis Van Winkle 1919 fig shell
"Ficopsis texana" = Ficus fig shell
"Ficopsis penita" = Ficus fig shell | |
Diodora tenebrosa, "Puncturella (Altrix) altior" = Altrix
"Puncturella (Altrix) altior" = Altrix snail | |
Cephalopoda | |
Aturia (Brazaturia) cf. laticlava nautiloid | |
Eutrephoceras carolinensis Kellum 1926 nautiloid | |
Scaphopoda | |
"Dentalium" sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
"Lithophaga cf. claibornensis" = Lithodomus claibornensis Conrad 1848 mussel
Arcoperna sp. Conard 1865 mussel
Modiolus cawcawensis Harris 1919 mussel | |
Barbatia sp. Gray 1842 clam
Pachecoa sp. Harris 1919 clam
"Barbatia (Plagiarca) rhomboidell" = Plagiarca clam | |
Glycymeris sp. Da Costa 1778 clam
Glycymeris staminea Conrad 1833 clam | |
Eburneopecten calvatus, Chlamys membranosa, Chlamys cawcawensis, Chlamys burlesonensis, Chlamys wahtubbeana, Spondylus sp.
Eburneopecten calvatus Morton 1833 scallop
Chlamys membranosa scallop
Chlamys cawcawensis scallop
Chlamys burlesonensis scallop
Chlamys wahtubbeana Dall 1898 scallop
Spondylus sp. Linnaeus 1758 scallop | |
Plicatula filamentosa Conrad 1833 scallop | |
Lima sp. Bruguière 1797 file clam | |
Pteria sp. Scopoli 1777 pearl oyster | |
Atrina sp. Gray 1842 oyster | |
Cubitostrea sellaeformis Conrad 1832 oyster
Lopha ("Alectryonia") ludoviciana Harris 1919 oyster | |
Pleuromeris parva, Glyptoactis (Claibornicardia) alticostata, Glyptoactis (Claibornicardia) complexicosta, Venericardia (Rotundicardia) eutawcolens, Venericardia (Rotundicardia) rotunda, Venericardia (Venericor) claiboplata
Pleuromeris parva Lea 1833 clam
Glyptoactis (Claibornicardia) alticostata Conrad 1833 clam
Venericardia (Rotundicardia) rotunda Lea 1833 clam
Venericardia (Venericor) claiboplata Gardner and Bowles 1939 clam | |
Lirodiscus smithvillensis Harris 1895 clam | |
Crassatella eutawacolens, Crassatella sp., Crassatella willcoxi, "Crassatella alta" = Crassatella uvasana, Crassatella texalta
Crassatella sp. Lamarck 1799 clam
Crassatella willcoxi Brown and Pilsbry 1912 clam
"Crassatella alta" = Crassatella uvasana Conrad 1855 clam
Crassatella texalta Harris 1895 clam | |
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Gari eborea clam | |
Semele australina Harris 1919 clam
Semele linosa Conrad 1833 clam | |
Spisula (Symmorphomactra) praetenuis Conrad 1833 clam | |
Meiocardia carolinae Harris 1919 clam | |
Chama monroensis Aldrich 1903 jewel box | |
Diplodonta ungulina Conrad 1833 clam | |
"Eosolen sp." = Solena (Eosolen)
"Eosolen sp." = Solena (Eosolen) Stewart 1930 clam | |
Pholadomya sp. Sowerby 1823 clam | |
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799 nut clam | |
Nuculana trumani pointed nut clam | |
Malacostraca | |
"Eohalimede saundersi n. sp." = Pyreneplax sandersi
"Eohalimede saundersi n. sp." = Pyreneplax sandersi Blow and Manning 1997 crab | |
Martinetta palmeri n. sp.
Martinetta palmeri n. sp. Blow and Manning 1997 crab |