Also known as Loc. 148
Where: Calhoun County, South Carolina (33.7° N, 80.8° W: paleocoordinates 33.7° N, 72.8° 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 35 ft thickness.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: poorly lithified, 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 92434: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 12.11.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Pecten deshayesii" = Chlamys deshayesii
"Pecten deshayesii" = Chlamys deshayesii Lea 1833 scallop | |
"Ostrea trigonalis" = Gigantostrea trigonalis
"Ostrea trigonalis" = Gigantostrea trigonalis Conrad 1854 oyster | |
"Ostrea sellaeformis" = Cubitostrea sellaeformis
"Ostrea sellaeformis" = Cubitostrea sellaeformis Conrad 1832 oyster | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Terebratulina lachryma Morton 1833 | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
Gymnolaemata | |
Malacostraca | |
Decapoda indet. Latreille 1802 decapod |