Also known as Sta. 4579

Where: Orangeburg County, South Carolina (33.6° N, 80.1° W: paleocoordinates 33.6° N, 71.0° 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 Santee Limestone (Eocene); 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 patches of sand in clay overlain by pebbly clay.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; shelly/skeletal, red sandstone and red claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Vaughn, Cooke

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTORS: Vaughn, c. 1900's; 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 92488: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 16.11.2009

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