Also known as Loc. 140
Where: Orangeburg County, South Carolina (33.4° N, 80.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.4° N, 72.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Santee Limestone Formation, Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Santee Limestone, which presumably regionally underlies the Cooper Marl and unconformably overlies the McBean Fm, and is regionally correlative with the Barnswell Sand. AGE: Late Eocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From exposure of 20 ft thickness. Collection from upper 4 ft.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: poorly lithified, white, yellow limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Cooke in 1917
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTORS: C.W. Cooke, 1917. 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 92433: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 12.11.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
"Sismondia plana" = Protoscutella plana
"Sismondia plana" = Protoscutella plana Conrad 1865 sand dollar | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
Bivalvia | |
"Pecten deshayesii" = Chlamys deshayesii, Pecten sp., "Pecten (Pseudamusium) calvatus" = Eburneopecten calvatus
"Pecten deshayesii" = Chlamys deshayesii Lea 1833 scallop
Pecten sp. Müller 1776 scallop
"Pecten (Pseudamusium) calvatus" = Eburneopecten calvatus Morton 1833 scallop | |
Plicatula sp. Lamarck 1801 scallop | |
"Ostrea sellaeformis" = Cubitostrea sellaeformis
"Ostrea sellaeformis" = Cubitostrea sellaeformis Conrad 1832 oyster | |
"Ostrea trigonalis" = Gigantostrea trigonalis
"Ostrea trigonalis" = Gigantostrea trigonalis Conrad 1854 oyster | |
Cardium sp. Linnaeus 1758 cockle |