Also known as Station 3381
Where: Decatur County, Georgia (30.9° N, 84.6° W: paleocoordinates 31.0° N, 78.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Flint River Formation, Early/Lower Oligocene (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)
• From upper bed. Assigned to Lower Oligocene (Rupelian) by Scott et al. 2001 following mapping by Cooke (1945).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression, replaced with silica
Reposited in the USNM
• Collected by T.W. Vaughan (1900). Reposted in USNM collections.
Primary reference: W. H. Dall. 1916. A contribution to the invertebrate fauna of the Oligocene beds of Flint, River. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 51(2162):487-524 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 60824: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 24.05.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Cerithium cookei cerith snail
Cerithium eutextile cerith snail | |
Turritella tampae Heilprin 1887 turret shell | |
Ampullina streptostoma snail | |
Conus sp. Linnaeus 1758 cone shell | |
"Xancus wilsoni" = Turbinella wilsoni
"Xancus wilsoni" = Turbinella wilsoni Conrad 1848 snail | |
Cassis globosa snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Lithophaga nuda Dall 1898 mussel | |
"Cardium eversum" = Trachycardium eversum
"Cardium eversum" = Trachycardium eversum Conrad 1848 cockle | |
"Antigona aff. caesarina" = Periglypta caesarina, "Chione bainbridgensis" = Chione (Chionopsis) bainbridgensis
"Antigona aff. caesarina" = Periglypta caesarina Dall 1903 venus clam
"Chione bainbridgensis" = Chione (Chionopsis) bainbridgensis Dall 1916 venus clam | |
"Phacoides (Miltha) hillsboroensis" = Miltha hillsboroensis
"Phacoides (Miltha) hillsboroensis" = Miltha hillsboroensis Heilprin 1887 clam |