USGS 25865, Martin Marietta Berkeley quarry (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Berkeley County, South Carolina (33.3° N, 80.2° W: paleocoordinates 33.7° N, 68.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Santee Formation, Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)

• In situ, top 9 inches of soft Santee Limestone, about 4 feet below overlying Cross Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: W. C. Blow and R. B. Manning. 1996. Preliminary descriptions of 25 new decapod crustaceans from the middle Eocene of the Carolinas, U.S.A. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 29:1-26 [C. Schweitzer/C. Schweitzer/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 191872: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 18.02.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Pilumnidae
Viacarcinus druidi Blow and Manning 1996 crab