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
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
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Scalina trapaquara wentletrap | |
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Serpulorbis squamulosus Conrad 1834 worm shell | |
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Sinum inconstans moon snail
Sinum bilix Conrad 1833 moon snail | |
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Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta Solander 1766 slipper shell | |
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Sulcocypraea vaughani Johnson 1899 snail | |
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Agaronia alabamensis Conrad 1833 olive snail | |
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Mitrella (Bastropia) bastropensis dove shell | |
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Terebrifusus amoenus Conrad 1833 true whelk | |
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Bonellitia garvani snail
Trigonostoma aurorae snail | |
Eosurcula pulcherrima, Cochlespirella nana, Scobinella (Moniliopsis) nassiformis, Eopleurotoma plumbella, Eopleurotoma politica, "Coronia carodenta" = Gemmula (Coronia), "Coronia ludocarola" = Gemmula (Coronia)
Eosurcula pulcherrima turrid
Cochlespirella nana turrid
Eopleurotoma plumbella turrid
Eopleurotoma politica turrid
"Coronia carodenta" = Gemmula (Coronia) turrid
"Coronia ludocarola" = Gemmula (Coronia) turrid | |
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Daphnella imperita snail | |
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Caricella pyruloides Conrad 1832 volute | |
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Odostomia carolina snail | |
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Architectonica amoena sundial | |
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Solariella tricostata Conrad 1833 snail | |
| Bivalvia | |
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Nucula (Nucula) mauricensis Harris 1919 nut clam | |
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Tellina (Arcopagia) raveneli Conrad 1846 tellin clam | |
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Semele australina Harris 1919 clam | |
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Pteropsella lapidosa Conrad 1846 clam | |
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Crassatella rhomboidea Conrad 1846 clam | |
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Glycymeris (Glycymeris) idonea Conrad 1865 bittersweet clam | |
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Barbatia (Plagiarca) rhomboidella Lea 1833 clam
Trinacria cuneus Conrad 1833 clam | |