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)
• formation-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 92378: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 09.11.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Scalina trapaquara wentletrap | |
Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta Solander 1766 slipper shell | |
Sinum inconstans moon snail
Sinum bilix Conrad 1833 moon snail | |
Serpulorbis squamulosus Conrad 1834 worm shell | |
Sulcocypraea vaughani Johnson 1899 snail | |
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Agaronia alabamensis Conrad 1833 snail | |
Bonellitia garvani snail
Trigonostoma aurorae snail | |
Terebrifusus amoenus Conrad 1833 true whelk | |
Caricella pyruloides Conrad 1832 volute | |
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Daphnella imperita snail | |
Cochlespirella nana, Scobinella (Moniliopsis) nassiformis, Eosurcula pulcherrima, "Coronia carodenta" = Gemmula (Coronia), "Coronia ludocarola" = Gemmula (Coronia), Eopleurotoma plumbella, Eopleurotoma politica
Cochlespirella nana turrid
Eosurcula pulcherrima turrid
"Coronia carodenta" = Gemmula (Coronia) turrid
"Coronia ludocarola" = Gemmula (Coronia) turrid
Eopleurotoma plumbella turrid
Eopleurotoma politica turrid | |
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Odostomia carolina snail | |
Architectonica amoena sundial | |
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Solariella tricostata Conrad 1833 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Nucula (Nucula) mauricensis Harris 1919 nut clam | |
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Pteropsella lapidosa Conrad 1846 clam | |
Tellina (Arcopagia) raveneli Conrad 1846 tellin clam | |
Semele australina Harris 1919 clam | |
Crassatella rhomboidea Conrad 1846 clam | |
Trinacria cuneus Conrad 1833 clam
Barbatia (Plagiarca) rhomboidella Lea 1833 clam | |
Glycymeris (Glycymeris) idonea Conrad 1865 clam |