Sta. 7867 - Eutaw Springs [Santee Limestone]: Late/Upper Eocene, South Carolina
collected by Cooke 1917
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Cardiidae
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Cardium sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Plicatulidae
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Plicatula sp.
Lamarck 1801
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Pectinidae
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Pecten deshayesii
Lea 1833
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| recombined as Chlamys deshayesii | |||||||
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Pecten (Pseudamusium) calvatus
Morton 1833
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| recombined as Eburneopecten calvatus | |||||||
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Pecten sp.
Müller 1776
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Gryphaeidae
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Ostrea trigonalis
Conrad 1854
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| recombined as Gigantostrea trigonalis | |||||||
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Ostreidae
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Ostrea sellaeformis
Conrad 1832
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| recombined as Cubitostrea sellaeformis | |||||||
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unclassified
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Bryozoa indet.
Ehrenberg 1831
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Echinoidea
- Clypeasteroida
- Protoscutellidae
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Sismondia plana
Conrad 1865
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| recombined as Protoscutella plana | |||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | South Carolina | County: | Orangeburg |
| Coordinates: | 33.4° North, 80.3° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 33.4° North, 72.3° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| Stage: | Priabonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 3 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Eocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 37.71000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Santee Limestone | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Santee Limestone, which presumably regionally underlies the Cooper Marl and unconformably overlies the McBean Fm, and is regionally correlative with the Barnswell Sand. AGE: Late Eocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From exposure of 20 ft thickness. Collection from upper 4 ft. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | white,yellow poorly lithified "limestone" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: White-cream colored limestone; loosely compacted, sometimes indurared. LITHIFICATION: Poorly-lithified, on the basis of facies description. | |
| Environment: | carbonate indet. |
| Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Shallow marine, shelfal carbonate. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis | ||
| Collectors: | Cooke | Collection dates: | 1917 |
| Collection method comments: COLLECTORS: C.W. Cooke, 1917. REPOSITORIES: Unknown. | |||
| Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for bivalves and gastropods. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication and with antiquated nomenclature but with species-resolution identifications. Nomenclature updated with subsequent publications. | |||
Metadata
| Also known as: | Loc. 140 | ||
| Database number: | 92433 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy |
| Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2009-11-12 14:02:14 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:37:23 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2009-11-12 14:02:14 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 31145. | C. W. Cooke. 1936. Geology of the Coastal Plain of South Carolina. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 837 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |