Where: Aiken County, South Carolina (33.3° N, 81.6° W: paleocoordinates 33.5° N, 72.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: McBean Formation, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the McBean Fm, which regionally unconformably overlies the Black Mingo Fm (Paleocene) and is regionally unconformably overlain by the Barnwell Sandstone and Santee Limestone; the formation is laterally equialent to the Nanjemoy Fm and the Claiborne Gp. AGE: Bartonian, on the basis of recent biostratigraphic dating. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position in formation.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; shelly/skeletal, green, yellow, argillaceous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Cooke in 1916
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTORS: C. W. Cooke, 1916. 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 92485: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 16.11.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Volutocorbis petrosus" = Athleta (Volutocorbis)
"Volutocorbis petrosus" = Athleta (Volutocorbis) volute | |
Bivalvia | |
Pecten sp. Müller 1776 scallop | |
"Ostrea divaricata" = Cubitostrea (Cubitostrea) divaricata
"Ostrea divaricata" = Cubitostrea (Cubitostrea) divaricata Lea 1833 oyster | |
"Corbula alabamiensis" = Corbula (Caryocorbula) alabamiensis, Corbula extenuata
"Corbula alabamiensis" = Corbula (Caryocorbula) alabamiensis Lea 1833 clam
Corbula extenuata Dall 1898 clam | |
"Cytherea discoidalis" = Rhabdopitaria discoidalis
"Cytherea discoidalis" = Rhabdopitaria discoidalis Conrad 1833 venus clam | |
Spisula praetenuis Conrad 1833 clam | |
"Pteropsis lapidosa" = Pteropsella lapidosa
"Pteropsis lapidosa" = Pteropsella lapidosa Conrad 1846 clam | |
"Tellina papyria" = Tellina (Eurytellina) papyria
"Tellina papyria" = Tellina (Eurytellina) papyria Conrad 1833 tellin clam | |
Venericardia (Venericor) claviger Gardner and Bowles 1936 clam | |
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799 nut clam | |
"Leda sp." = Nuculana
"Leda sp." = Nuculana Link 1807 pointed nut clam |