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