Where: Orangeburg County, South Carolina (33.5° N, 80.9° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 35.9° N, 63.0° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: McBean Formation (Claiborne Group), Bartonian (41.0 - 37.7 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
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Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
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Odostomia carolina snail | |
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Architectonica amoena sundial | |
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 olive snail | |
Bonellitia garvani snail
Trigonostoma aurorae snail | |
Caricella pyruloides Conrad 1832 volute | |
Terebrifusus amoenus Conrad 1833 true whelk | |
Mitrella (Bastropia) bastropensis dove shell | |
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Daphnella imperita snail | |
"Coronia carodenta" = Gemmula (Coronia), "Coronia ludocarola" = Gemmula (Coronia), Cochlespirella nana, Eopleurotoma plumbella, Eopleurotoma politica, Eosurcula pulcherrima, Scobinella (Moniliopsis) nassiformis
"Coronia carodenta" = Gemmula (Coronia) turrid
"Coronia ludocarola" = Gemmula (Coronia) turrid
Cochlespirella nana turrid
Eopleurotoma plumbella turrid
Eopleurotoma politica turrid
Eosurcula pulcherrima turrid | |
Solariella tricostata Conrad 1833 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Nucula (Nucula) mauricensis Harris 1919 nut clam | |
Barbatia (Plagiarca) rhomboidella Lea 1833 clam
Trinacria cuneus Conrad 1833 clam | |
Glycymeris (Glycymeris) idonea Conrad 1865 bittersweet clam | |
Crassatella rhomboidea Conrad 1846 clam | |
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Pteropsella lapidosa Conrad 1846 clam | |
Semele australina Harris 1919 clam | |
Tellina (Arcopagia) raveneli Conrad 1846 tellin clam | |
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