Where: Clay County, Georgia (30.7° N, 84.9° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 35.1° N, 54.8° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: lower Member (Clayton Formation), Danian (66.0 - 61.7 Ma)
• Local section name: GCl-2
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; gray sandstone
Size class: mesofossils
Primary reference: L. D. Toulmin. 1977. Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region. Geological Survey of Alabama, Monograph 13(1):1-602 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 2825: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 21.07.1999
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Turritella mortoni" = Kapalmerella mortoni, Turritella humerosa
"Turritella mortoni" = Kapalmerella mortoni Conrad 1830 turret shell
Turritella humerosa Conrad 1835 turret shell | |
Bivalvia | |
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