Where: Aiken County, South Carolina (33.6° N, 81.7° W: paleocoordinates 33.6° N, 73.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Barnwell Sand Formation, Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Barnwell Sand, which presumably regionally unconformably overlies the McBean Fm, and is regionally correlative with the Cooper Marl and Santee Limestone. AGE: Late Eocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From exposure of 5 ft thickness, underlain by patches of fuller's earth. Probably from the upper part of the sandstone
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, green, red sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Vaughn in 1907
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTORS: T.W Vaughn, 1907. REPOSITORIES: Unknown.
Primary reference: C. W. Cooke. 1936. Geology of the Coastal Plain of South Carolina. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 837 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 92432: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 12.11.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Phacoides alveatus clam
Lucina sp. Bruguière 1797 clam | |
Corbula extenuata Dall 1898 clam | |
Cytherea aequora venus clam | |
Mactra sp. Linnaeus 1767 clam | |
"Panope sp." = Panopea
"Panope sp." = Panopea Menard 1807 clam | |
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"Arca rhomboidella" = Barbatia (Plagiarca) rhomboidella, "Trigonarca declivis" = Halonanus declivis
"Arca rhomboidella" = Barbatia (Plagiarca) rhomboidella Lea 1833 clam
"Trigonarca declivis" = Halonanus declivis Conrad 1833 clam | |
Glycymeris sp. Da Costa 1778 clam | |
Nucula ovalis, "Nucula magnifica" = Nucula (Nucula) magnifica
Nucula ovalis nut clam
"Nucula magnifica" = Nucula (Nucula) magnifica Conrad 1833 nut clam | |
Gastropoda | |
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"Fusoficula texana" = Ficus
"Fusoficula texana" = Ficus fig shell | |
Marginella semen Lea 1833 margin shell | |
Caricella pyruloides Conrad 1832 volute | |
Phos sagenus true whelk | |
Terebra sp. Bruguière 1789 auger snail | |
"Mangilia sp." = Cythara (Mangelia)
"Mangilia sp." = Cythara (Mangelia) Loven 1846 snail | |
"Natica semilunata" = Natica (Naticarius) semilunata
"Natica semilunata" = Natica (Naticarius) semilunata Lea 1833 moon snail | |
"Turritella carinata" = Haustator carinata, Mesalia claibornensis, Turritella dutexata, Turritella nasuta
"Turritella carinata" = Haustator carinata Lea 1833 turret shell
Mesalia claibornensis turret shell
Turritella dutexata Harris 1895 turret shell
Turritella nasuta turret shell | |
Amalthea sp. snail | |
"Actaeon idoneus" = Acteon idoneus
"Actaeon idoneus" = Acteon idoneus Conrad 1833 snail | |
Gymnolaemata | |
Anthozoa | |
Platytrochus stokesi stony coral | |
Endopachys maclurii Lea 1833 stony coral |