USGS 25865, Martin Marietta Berkeley quarry: Lutetian, South Carolina
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Malacostraca
- Decapoda
- Pilumnidae
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Viacarcinus druidi
Blow and Manning 1996
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | South Carolina | County: | Berkeley |
| Coordinates: | 33.3° North, 80.2° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 33.7° North, 68.8° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| Stage: | Lutetian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 2 |
| Key time interval: | Lutetian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 47.8 - 41.2 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Santee | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: In situ, top 9 inches of soft Santee Limestone, about 4 feet below overlying Cross Formation | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified "limestone" |
| Environment: | carbonate indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | USNM |
Metadata
| Database number: | 191872 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham | Research group: | decapod,marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2018-02-18 23:31:35 | Last modified: | 2018-02-18 23:31:35 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2018-02-18 23:31:35 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 12076. | W. C. Blow and R. B. Manning. 1996. Preliminary descriptions of 25 new decapod crustaceans from the middle Eocene of the Carolinas, U.S.A. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 29:1-26 [C. Schweitzer/C. Schweitzer/M. Uhen] |