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 | |
"Yoldia (Orthoyoldia) psammotaea" = Orthoyoldia psammotaea
"Yoldia (Orthoyoldia) psammotaea" = Orthoyoldia psammotaea Dall 1898 pointed nut clam Yoldia (Orthoyoldia) psammotaea orangeburgensis
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"Mauricia houstonia" = Modiola houstonia
"Mauricia houstonia" = Modiola houstonia Harris 1895 mussel | |
Gastropoda | |
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