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 locally unconformably overlain by the Barnwell Sandstone; 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 bed 1 (10 ft thick), at base of section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, shelly/skeletal, green shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Vaughn

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTORS: T.W. Vaughn, c. 1900's. 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 92486: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 16.11.2009

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