OR-9 (Santee Limestone, South Carolina): Bartonian, South Carolina
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Fasciolariidae
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Fusinus abruptus
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Gastropoda
- Siliquariidae
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Tenagodus cf. vitus
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| Tenagodus cf. T. vitus | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Lepetellida
- Fissurellidae
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Puncturella sp.
Lowe 1827
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Scaphopoda
- Dentaliida
- Dentaliidae
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Dentalium sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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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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Ostrea sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Cubitostrea sellaeformis
(Conrad 1832)
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Spondylidae
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Spondylus lamellacea
Kellum 1926
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Pectinidae
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Chlamys spp.
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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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Bivalvia
- Lucinida
- Lucinidae
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Lucina sp.
Bruguière 1797
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Semelidae
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Semele cf. linosa
(Conrad 1833)
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| Semela cf. S. linosa | ||||||||||
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Asteroidea
- Valvatida
- Goniasteridae
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Recurvaster sp.
Brünnich-Nielsen 1943
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Echinoidea
- Clypeasteroida
- Protoscutellidae
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Protoscutella conradi
(Cotteau 1891)
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Echinoidea
- Cidaroida
- Cidaridae
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Cidaris pratti
Clark and Twitchell 1915
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | South Carolina | County: | Orangeburg |
| Coordinates: | 33.5° North, 80.5° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 33.6° North, 71.4° 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 part of the Santee Fm. | |||||
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: | 5343 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Miller | Enterer: | K. Layou |
| Modifier: | A. Miller | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 1999-09-27 08:05:08 | Last modified: | 2007-01-28 14:39:49 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1999-09-27 08:05:08 |
| 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] |