ammonites
BE-1 (Santee Limestone, South Carolina) (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Berkeley County, South Carolina (33.4° N, 80.1° W: paleocoordinates 33.4° N, 71.3° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cubitostrea sellaeformis/Pteropis lapidosa zone, Santee Limestone Formation, Bartonian (40.4 - 37.2 Ma)

• This collection is from the upper part of the Santee Formation.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, shelly/skeletal grainstone and wackestone

• "The Santee Limestone possesses a diverse and abundant fauna which, in over-all association, suggests a tropical climate."
• the santee limestone is composed primarily of bryozoan biosparrudites and biomicrudites which grade laterally westward into foraminiferal biomicrites and diatomites.

Primary reference: R. J. Powell and G. R. Baum. 1982. Eocene biostratigraphy of South Carolina and its relationship to Gulf Coastal Plain zonations and global changes of coastal onlap. Geological Society of America Bulletin 93:1099-1108 [A. Miller/K. Layou] more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 5345: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 27.09.1999