Also known as Martin Marietta quarry SE of Jamestown
Where: Berkeley County, South Carolina (33.3° N, 79.7° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 35.3° N, 59.4° W (Wright 2013)
• 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 52348: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 03.08.2005, edited by Mark Uhen and Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Salenia buddyi n. sp.3
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Gitolampas twitchelli n. sp.3
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Malacostraca | |
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Cephalopoda | |
Eutrephoceras carolinense Kellum 1926 | |
Gastropoda | |
"Mitra (Fusimitra) sp." = Fusimitra
"Mitra (Fusimitra) sp." = Fusimitra Conrad 1855 mitre shell | |
Ficus affinis Van Winkle 1919 fig shell | |
Cheilea sp. Modeer 1793 hoof shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Pholadomya sp. Sowerby 1823 clam | |
Glyptoactis (Claibornicardia) alticostata Conrad 1833 clam | |
Chlamys sp. Röding 1798 scallop | |
Plicatula filamentosa Conrad 1833 scallop | |
Lima sp. Bruguière 1797 file clam | |
Pycnodonte sp. Fischer von Waldheim 1835 oyster | |
Barbatia sp. Gray 1842 clam |