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)
• member-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 91118: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 05.09.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Eosurcula quadriplenta turrid
Scobinella ferrosilica turrid | |
Bivalvia | |
Solemya sp. Children 1823 Awning Clam
Solemya alabamensis Harris 1897 Awning Clam | |
Nucula (? Pectinucula) ripae Harris 1919 nut clam | |
"Yoldia (Orthoyoldia) psammotaea" = Orthoyoldia psammotaea
"Yoldia (Orthoyoldia) psammotaea" = Orthoyoldia psammotaea Dall 1898 pointed nut clam Yoldia (Orthoyoldia) psammotaea orangeburgensis
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Pitar (Katherinella) trigoniata venus clam | |
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Modiolus cawcawensis Harris 1919 mussel | |
Atrina cawcawensis oyster |