Sta. 7990 - Belle Broughton Plantation [Santee Limestone] (Eocene of the United States)

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

• ENVIRONMENT: Shallow marine, shelfal carbonate.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Fine granular cream-colored limestone or marl. 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 92434: 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.
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Pecten deshayesii" = Chlamys deshayesii
"Pecten deshayesii" = Chlamys deshayesii Lea 1833 scallop
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Ostrea trigonalis" = Gigantostrea trigonalis
"Ostrea trigonalis" = Gigantostrea trigonalis Conrad 1854 oyster
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
"Ostrea sellaeformis" = Cubitostrea sellaeformis
"Ostrea sellaeformis" = Cubitostrea sellaeformis Conrad 1832 oyster
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Cancellothyrididae
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Gymnolaemata
 Cheilostomata - Lepraliellidae
Malacostraca
 Decapoda -
Decapoda indet. Latreille 1802 decapod