Sta. 7920 - Salters [Black Mingo Fm] (Paleocene of the United States)

Also known as Loc. 65

Where: Williamsburg County, South Carolina (33.6° N, 79.9° W: paleocoordinates 34.8° N, 62.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Black Mingo Formation, Late/Upper Paleocene (58.7 - 55.8 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Black Mingo, which locally overlies fuller's earth; the formation is laterally equialent to the Aquia Fm and the Wilcox Gp. AGE: Paleocene in text; here assigned to Late Paleocene on the basis of more recent biostratigraphic dating. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From upper unit in section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; fine-grained, gray, red sandstone

• ENVIRONMENT: Shallow marine, shelfal siliciclastic.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Fine gray to reddish sand. LITHIFICATION: Unknown.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Cooke

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTORS: C. W. Cooke. 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 92465: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 15.11.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Limited to characteristic bivalves and gastropods. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication and with antiquated nomenclature but with species-resolution identifications. Nomenclature updated with subsequent publications.
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
"Ostrea cf. arrosis" = Ostrea (Ostrea) arrosis
"Ostrea cf. arrosis" = Ostrea (Ostrea) arrosis Aldrich 1904 oyster
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Cucullaea transversa Rogers and Rogers 1839 clam
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Columastreidae
Haimesiastraea conferta Vaughan 1900 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Oculinidae
"Coelohelia wagneriana" = Oculina wagneriana
"Coelohelia wagneriana" = Oculina wagneriana Vaughan 1900 stony coral