Sta. 7867 - Eutaw Springs [Santee Limestone] (Eocene of the United States)

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

• ENVIRONMENT: Shallow marine, shelfal carbonate.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: White-cream colored limestone; loosely compacted, sometimes indurared. LITHIFICATION: Poorly-lithified, on the basis of facies description.

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

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for bivalves and gastropods. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication and with antiquated nomenclature but with species-resolution identifications. Nomenclature updated with subsequent publications.
Echinoidea
 Clypeasteroida - Protoscutellidae
"Sismondia plana" = Protoscutella plana
"Sismondia plana" = Protoscutella plana Conrad 1865 sand dollar
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"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
 Pectinida - Plicatulidae
Plicatula sp. Lamarck 1801 scallop
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
"Ostrea sellaeformis" = Cubitostrea sellaeformis
"Ostrea sellaeformis" = Cubitostrea sellaeformis Conrad 1832 oyster
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Ostrea trigonalis" = Gigantostrea trigonalis
"Ostrea trigonalis" = Gigantostrea trigonalis Conrad 1854 oyster
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Cardium sp. Linnaeus 1758 cockle