Sta. 5252 - Ingleside [Santee Limestone] (Eocene of the United States)

Also known as Loc. 162

Where: South Carolina (33.0° N, 80.1° W: paleocoordinates 32.9° N, 72.2° 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 abandoned marl pit (now under water).

• 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 Sloan & Vaughn

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTORS: E. Sloan and T.W. Vaughn. 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 92435: 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.
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Balanophyllia sp. Wood 1844 stony coral
Gastropoda
 Epitonioidea - Epitoniidae
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Lyria sp. Gray 1847 volute
 Sorbeoconcha - Ficidae
Ficus sp. Röding 1798 fig shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Cassidae
"? Cassidaria sp." = Galeodea
"? Cassidaria sp." = Galeodea Link 1807 snail
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Pecten calvatus" = Eburneopecten calvatus, Pecten sp.
"Pecten calvatus" = Eburneopecten calvatus Morton 1833 scallop
Pecten sp. Müller 1776 scallop
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster
Ostrea carolinensis Conrad 1832 oyster
Thecostraca
 Balanomorpha - Balanidae