Sta. 7733 - Tinker Creek (S side) [McBean Fm] (Eocene of the United States)

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

• ENVIRONMENT: Shallow marine, shelfal siliciclastic.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Greenish yellowish argillaceous sand and shells. LITHIFICATION: Unknown.

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

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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
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
"Volutocorbis petrosus" = Athleta (Volutocorbis)
"Volutocorbis petrosus" = Athleta (Volutocorbis) volute
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Pecten sp. Müller 1776 scallop
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
"Ostrea divaricata" = Cubitostrea (Cubitostrea) divaricata Lea 1833 oyster
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
"Corbula alabamiensis" = Corbula (Caryocorbula) alabamiensis Lea 1833 clam
Corbula extenuata Dall 1898 clam
 Cardiida - Veneridae
"Cytherea discoidalis" = Rhabdopitaria discoidalis
"Cytherea discoidalis" = Rhabdopitaria discoidalis Conrad 1833 venus clam
 Cardiida - Mactridae
Spisula praetenuis Conrad 1833 clam
 Cardiida - Anatinellidae
"Pteropsis lapidosa" = Pteropsella lapidosa
"Pteropsis lapidosa" = Pteropsella lapidosa Conrad 1846 clam
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
"Tellina papyria" = Tellina (Eurytellina) papyria
"Tellina papyria" = Tellina (Eurytellina) papyria Conrad 1833 tellin clam
 Carditida - Carditidae
Venericardia (Venericor) claviger Gardner and Bowles 1936 clam
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799 nut clam
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
"Leda sp." = Nuculana
"Leda sp." = Nuculana Link 1807 pointed nut clam