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
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
Anthozoa | |
Balanophyllia sp. Wood 1844 stony coral | |
Gastropoda | |
Epitonium chamberlaini wentletrap | |
Lyria sp. Gray 1847 volute | |
Ficus sp. Röding 1798 fig shell | |
"? Cassidaria sp." = Galeodea
"? Cassidaria sp." = Galeodea Link 1807 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Anomia jugosa jingle | |
"Pecten calvatus" = Eburneopecten calvatus, Pecten sp.
"Pecten calvatus" = Eburneopecten calvatus Morton 1833 scallop
Pecten sp. Müller 1776 scallop | |
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster
Ostrea carolinensis Conrad 1832 oyster | |
Thecostraca | |
Balanus peregrinus barnacle |