Wedgefield: Lutetian, South Carolina
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda
- Turritellidae
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Turritella sp.
Lamarck 1799
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Bivalvia
- Pholadida
- Corbulidae
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Corbula sp.
Bruguière 1789
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Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Carditidae
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Cardita sp.
Bruguière 1792
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Venericardia sp.
Lamarck 1801
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Scaphopoda
- Dentaliida
- Dentaliidae
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Dentalium sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Malacostraca
- Decapoda
- Axiidae
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Axiopsis eximia n. sp.
Kensley and Williams 1990
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | South Carolina | County: | Sumter |
Coordinates: | 33.9° North, 80.5° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 34.3° North, 69.0° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
Stage: | Lutetian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 2 |
*Period: | Early/Lower Tertiary | *Epoch: | Middle Eocene |
Key time interval: | Lutetian | ||
Age range of interval: | 47.80000 - 41.30000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Warley Hill | Member: | lower | ||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: material from a single collection of matrix
Lutetian age of formation based on Hulbert et al. 1998 (ref 289) |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | ferruginous,shelly/skeletal argillaceous,calcareous sandstone |
Lithology description: iron-stained argillaceous, calcareous, medium-to-coarse quartz sandstone containing a roughly layered coquina | |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | species names |
Collection methods: | field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Museum repositories: | USGS |
Metadata
Also known as: | USGS 25750 | ||
Database number: | 4885 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 1999-08-28 18:28:33 | Last modified: | 2019-07-19 11:07:14 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1999-08-28 18:28:33 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
300. | B. Kensley and A. B. Williams. 1990. Axiopsis eximia, a new thalassinidean shrimp (Crustacea, Decapoda, Axiidae) from the Middle Eocene of South Carolina. Journal of Paleontology 64(5):798-802 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |