Wedgefield: Lutetian, South Carolina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbula sp. Bruguière 1789
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Cardita sp. Bruguière 1792
Venericardia sp. Lamarck 1801
Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Axiidae
Axiopsis eximia n. sp. Kensley and Williams 1990
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]