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 | |
Viacarcinus druidi Blow and Manning 1996 crab |