Where: South Carolina (33.5° N, 80.5° W: paleocoordinates 33.5° N, 72.5° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pregnall Member (Tupelo Bay Formation), Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)
• Powell & Baum used Cross at formation rank, but that usage is not followed in later publications. According to Edwards et al. (1997), the Cross Member of the Santee Limestone is dated as both late middle Eocene and late Eocene, representing calcareous nannofossil Zones NP 17 and NP 18. Geisler et al. (2005) re-assessed the stratigraphy and named the Tupelo Bay Formation to include the type Cross Member/Formation and coarser-grained units, which belong to the earliest Priabonian (NP18) Pregnall Member. It is not clear which unit is exposed at the Santee Quarry, but the invertebrate fauna is extremely similar to the Pregnall Member at the Giant Portland Quarry.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal packstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: R. J. Powell and G. R. Baum. 1982. Eocene biostratigraphy of South Carolina and its relationship to Gulf Coastal Plain zonations and global changes of coastal onlap. Geological Society of America Bulletin 93:1099-1108 [A. Miller/K. Layou]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 5363: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 27.09.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
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Anthozoa | |
Endopachys sp. Lonsdale 1845 stony coral | |
Flabellum sp. Lesson 1831 stony coral | |
Echinoidea | |
Cidaris pratti Clark and Twitchell 1915 pencil urchin | |
Periarchus lyelli Conrad 1834 sand dollar
Protoscutella plana Conrad 1865 sand dollar | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Terebratulina spp. d'Orbigny 1847 | |
Bivalvia | |
Glycymeris ? staminea Conrad 1833 clam | |
Cubitostrea sp. Sacco 1897 oyster
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Gigantostrea trigonalis Conrad 1854 oyster | |
Placopecten ? spp. Verrill 1897 scallop
Chlamys spp. Röding 1798 scallop
Chlamys cawcawensis scallop
Chlamys cookei Kellum 1926 scallop | |
Bathytormus cf. flexurus, "Crassatella alta" = Crassatella uvasana
"Crassatella alta" = Crassatella uvasana Conrad 1855 clam | |
Venericardia spp. Lamarck 1801 clam | |
"Lucina cf. pandata" = Eomiltha pandata
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Cardiidae indet. Lamarck 1809 cockle | |
Tellina sp. Linnaeus 1758 tellin clam | |
"Callista neusensis" = Meretrix neusensis
"Callista neusensis" = Meretrix neusensis Harris 1919 venus clam | |
Panopea sp. Menard 1807 clam | |
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799 nut clam | |
Cephalopoda | |
Aturia sp. Bronn 1838 nautiloid | |
Eutrephoceras carolinensis Kellum 1926 nautiloid | |
Gastropoda | |
Retusa sp. Brown 1827 snail | |
Turritella spp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell | |
Cypraea sp. Linnaeus 1758 cowry | |
Conus sp. Linnaeus 1758 cone shell |