Also known as Holnam Quarry

Where: Orangeburg County, South Carolina (33.3° N, 80.4° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 35.7° N, 64.7° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pregnall Member (Tupelo Bay Formation), Priabonian (37.7 - 33.9 Ma)

• Uhen & Gingerich (2001) state that this is from the Cross Formation. Geisler et al (2005) place the Cross Formation as a member in the Tupelo Bay Formation. Geisler et al (2005) indicate that the Giant Portland Cement quarry is in the Pregnall Member, and Kier (1980) indicates a similar echinoid fauna (Periarchus lyelli), suggesting that this quarry is from the Pregnall Member as well, making it Priabonian.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal wackestone and grainstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Primary reference: M. D. Uhen and P. D. Gingerich. 2001. New genus of dorudontine archaeocete (Cetacea) from the Middle-to-Late Eocene of South Carolina. Marine Mammal Science 17(1):1-34 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 122725: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 05.01.2012

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