Sta. 5254 - Manning [Black Mingo Fm] (Paleocene of the United States)

Also known as Loc. 81

Where: Clarendon County, South Carolina (33.7° N, 80.2° W: paleocoordinates 34.9° N, 63.0° 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 regionally unconformably overlies the PeeDee Fm (Late Cretaceous) and is regionally unconformably overlain by the McBean Fm (Eocene); 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: Represents 1-2 ft of shale in ditch.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, brown, gray, sandy shale

• ENVIRONMENT: Shallow marine, shelfal siliciclastic.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Shale, chocolate colored-gray, brittle, with thin partings of sand. LITHIFICATION: Poorly lithified, assumed on the basis of facies description.

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 92466: 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.
Gastropoda
 Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
"Calyptraea aperta" = Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta
"Calyptraea aperta" = Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta Solander 1766 slipper shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Vitrinellidae
Adeorbis sp. Wood 1848 snail
Bivalvia
 Carditida - Carditidae
Venericardia (Venericor) mingoensis Gardner and Bowles 1939 clam
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
"Ostrea cf. arrosis" = Ostrea (Ostrea) arrosis
"Ostrea cf. arrosis" = Ostrea (Ostrea) arrosis Aldrich 1904 oyster