PRI 2753 (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Orangeburg County, South Carolina (33.5° N, 80.9° W: paleocoordinates 33.6° N, 71.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: McBean Formation (Claiborne Group), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: K. V. Palmer and D. C. Brann. 1965. Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Peteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda. Bulletins of American Paleontology 48:1-471 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 99098: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 26.10.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
"Yoldia (Orthoyoldia) psammotaea" = Orthoyoldia psammotaea
"Yoldia (Orthoyoldia) psammotaea" = Orthoyoldia psammotaea Dall 1898 pointed nut clam
Yoldia (Orthoyoldia) psammotaea orangeburgensis
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
"Mauricia houstonia" = Modiola houstonia
"Mauricia houstonia" = Modiola houstonia Harris 1895 mussel
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Turridae
Eopleurotoma carya Harris 1937 turrid
Eopleurotoma carya carola