Also known as Martin Marietta Orangeburg Quarry
Where: Berkeley County, South Carolina (33.3° N, 80.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.7° N, 68.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Santee Limestone Formation, Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)
• From Santee Formation, which is overlain unconformably by the Cross Formation, or Cross Member of the Santee Formation. The Santee Formation is also considered to be equivalent in age to the "McBean" Formation, while the Cross Formation is a down-dip equivalent of the lower Clinchfield Formation. The contact between the Santee Formation (s.s.) and the Cross Formation is approximately equivalent to the contact between the Lisbon Formation and Gosport Sand in the Gulf Coast. These are of Claibornian age=Lutetian (late Middle Eocene).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified, ferruginous, glauconitic, gray, white limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, original calcite
Reposited in the ANSP, USNM
Collection methods: salvage, quarrying, surface (float),
• Collections reposited at the University of North Carolina, USNM, and ANSP. Some new collecting by D. Campbell.
Primary reference: D. Campbell. 1995. New molluscan faunas from the Eocene of South Carolina. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 27:119-152 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 52344: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 03.08.2005, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Scaphopoda | |
"Dentalium" sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
Diodora tenebrosa, "Puncturella (Altrix) altior" = Altrix
"Puncturella (Altrix) altior" = Altrix snail | |
Cheilea sp. Modeer 1793 hoof shell | |
Serpulorbis squamulosus Conrad 1834 worm shell | |
"Natica" sp. Scopoli 1777 moon snail | |
Xenophora sp. Fischer von Waldheim 1807 carrier shell | |
Agaronia alabamensis Conrad 1833 snail | |
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"Clavilithes" abruptus snail | |
Santeevoluta wilmingtonensis Brown and Pilsbry 1912 volute
Caricella sp. Conrad 1835 volute
Caricella pyruloides Conrad 1832 volute
? Athleta ? cormacki volute | |
Conus smithvillensis Harris 1895 cone shell | |
Ficus affinis Van Winkle 1919 fig shell
"Ficopsis texana" = Ficus fig shell
"Ficopsis penita" = Ficus fig shell | |
Cypraeorbis alabamensis de Gregorio 1890 cowry | |
"Distorsio septemdentata" = Distorsio septendentata
"Distorsio septemdentata" = Distorsio septendentata triton shell | |
"Calyptraea aperta" = Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta
"Calyptraea aperta" = Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta Solander 1766 slipper shell | |
Mesalia claibornensis turret shell
"Turritella arenicola" = Kapalmerella arenicola Conrad 1865 turret shell
Turritella ghigna turret shell | |
Cephalopoda | |
Aturia (Brazaturia) cf. laticlava nautiloid | |
Eutrephoceras carolinensis Kellum 1926 nautiloid | |
Bivalvia | |
Pholadomya sp. Sowerby 1823 clam | |
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Gari eborea clam | |
Semele australina Harris 1919 clam
Semele linosa Conrad 1833 clam | |
Diplodonta ungulina Conrad 1833 clam | |
Chama monroensis Aldrich 1903 jewel box | |
Meiocardia carolinae Harris 1919 clam | |
Spisula (Symmorphomactra) praetenuis Conrad 1833 clam | |
"Eosolen sp." = Solena (Eosolen)
"Eosolen sp." = Solena (Eosolen) Stewart 1930 clam | |
Crassatella eutawacolens, Crassatella sp., Crassatella texalta, Crassatella willcoxi, "Crassatella alta" = Crassatella uvasana
Crassatella sp. Lamarck 1799 clam
Crassatella texalta Harris 1895 clam
Crassatella willcoxi Brown and Pilsbry 1912 clam
"Crassatella alta" = Crassatella uvasana Conrad 1855 clam | |
Lirodiscus smithvillensis Harris 1895 clam | |
Pleuromeris parva, Glyptoactis (Claibornicardia) complexicosta, Glyptoactis (Claibornicardia) alticostata, Venericardia (Venericor) claiboplata, Venericardia (Rotundicardia) eutawcolens, Venericardia (Rotundicardia) rotunda
Pleuromeris parva Lea 1833 clam
Glyptoactis (Claibornicardia) alticostata Conrad 1833 clam
Venericardia (Venericor) claiboplata Gardner and Bowles 1939 clam
Venericardia (Rotundicardia) rotunda Lea 1833 clam | |
Glycymeris sp. Da Costa 1778 clam
Glycymeris staminea Conrad 1833 clam | |
Barbatia sp. Gray 1842 clam
Pachecoa sp. Harris 1919 clam
"Barbatia (Plagiarca) rhomboidell" = Plagiarca clam | |
Cubitostrea sellaeformis Conrad 1832 oyster
Lopha ("Alectryonia") ludoviciana Harris 1919 oyster | |
Pteria sp. Scopoli 1777 pearl oyster | |
Atrina sp. Gray 1842 oyster | |
Lima sp. Bruguière 1797 file clam | |
Plicatula filamentosa Conrad 1833 scallop | |
Spondylus sp., Eburneopecten calvatus, Chlamys membranosa, Chlamys cawcawensis, Chlamys burlesonensis, Chlamys wahtubbeana
Spondylus sp. Linnaeus 1758 scallop
Eburneopecten calvatus Morton 1833 scallop
Chlamys membranosa scallop
Chlamys cawcawensis scallop
Chlamys burlesonensis scallop
Chlamys wahtubbeana Dall 1898 scallop | |
"Lithophaga cf. claibornensis" = Lithodomus claibornensis Conrad 1848 mussel
Modiolus cawcawensis Harris 1919 mussel
Arcoperna sp. Conard 1865 mussel | |
Nuculana trumani pointed nut clam | |
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799 nut clam | |
Malacostraca | |
"Eohalimede saundersi n. sp." = Pyreneplax sandersi
"Eohalimede saundersi n. sp." = Pyreneplax sandersi Blow and Manning 1997 crab | |
Martinetta palmeri n. sp.
Martinetta palmeri n. sp. Blow and Manning 1997 crab |