BE-8 (Santee Limestone, South Carolina): Bartonian, South Carolina
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Echinoidea
- Cidaroida
- Cidaridae
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Cidaris pratti
Clark and Twitchell 1915
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Echinoidea
- Clypeasteroida
- Protoscutellidae
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Protoscutella conradi
(Cotteau 1891)
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Asteroidea
- Valvatida
- Goniasteridae
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Recurvaster sp.
Brünnich-Nielsen 1943
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Bivalvia
- Mytilida
- Mytilidae
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Modiolus sp.
(Lamarck 1801)
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
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Arcacea indet.
Lamarck 1809
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| corrected as Arcoidea | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Ostreidae
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Cubitostrea sellaeformis
(Conrad 1832)
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Ostrea sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Alectryonia cf. ludoviciana
(Harris 1919)
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| Alectryonia cf. A. ludoviciana | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Pectinidae
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Eburneopecten scintillatus
(Conrad 1854)
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Chlamys spp.
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Chlamys membranosus
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Spondylidae
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Spondylus lamellacea
Kellum 1926
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Plicatulidae
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Plicatula lapidosa
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Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Crassatellidae
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Crassatellites sp.
Krueger 1823
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| synonym of Crassatella | ||||||||||
| Crassatellites sp. b | ||||||||||
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Crassatella cf. texalta
Harris 1895
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| Crassatella cf. C. texalta | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Carditidae
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Venericardia spp.
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Semelidae
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Semele cf. linosa
(Conrad 1833)
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| Semela cf. C. linosa | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Veneridae
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Pitar sp.
Römer 1857
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Chamidae
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Chama richardsi
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Bivalvia
- Solenida
- Solenidae
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Solena sp.
Mörch 1853
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Gastropoda
- Turritellidae
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Turritella spp.
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Gastropoda
- Ficidae
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Ficopsis sp.
Conrad 1866
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| synonym of Ficus | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Cypraeidae
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Cypraea sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Fasciolariidae
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Fusinus abruptus
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Conidae
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Conus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Volutidae
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Athleta sp.
Conrad 1853
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Gastropoda
- Strombidae
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Strombus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Gastropoda
- Cassidae
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Sconsia sp.
Gray 1847
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Malacostraca
- Decapoda
- Menippidae
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? Menippe sp.
De Haan 1833
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | South Carolina | County: | Berkeley |
| Coordinates: | 33.4° North, 80.1° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 33.4° North, 71.1° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| Stage: | Bartonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 3 |
| *Period: | Tertiary | *Local age/stage: | Claibornian |
| Key time interval: | Bartonian | Zone: | Cubitostrea sellaeformis/Pteropis lapidosa |
| Age range of interval: | 41.20000 - 37.71000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Santee Limestone | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: This collection is from the upper Santee Limestone. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | shelly/skeletal lithified grainstone |
| Secondary lithology: | wackestone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: the santee limestone is composed primarily of bryozoan biosparrudites and biomicrudites which grade laterally westward into foraminiferal biomicrites and diatomites. | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
| Geology comments: "The Santee Limestone possesses a diverse and abundant fauna which, in over-all association, suggests a tropical climate." | |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | all microfossils,difficult macrofossils |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 5353 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Miller | Enterer: | K. Layou |
| Modifier: | A. Miller | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 1999-09-27 10:41:43 | Last modified: | 2007-01-28 15:26:27 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1999-09-27 10:41:43 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 318. | 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] |