Also known as Station 3381
Where: Decatur County, Georgia (30.9° N, 84.6° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 34.0° N, 71.5° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Flint River Formation, Early/Lower Oligocene (33.9 - 27.3 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: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
| Gastropoda | |
| 
 Turritella  tampae Heilprin 1887 turret shell  | |
| 
 Cerithium  cookei  cerith snail 
Cerithium  eutextile  cerith snail  | |
| 
 Ampullina  streptostoma  snail  | |
| 
 Cassis  globosa  snail  | |
"Xancus  wilsoni" = Turbinella wilsoni
 
"Xancus  wilsoni" = Turbinella wilsoni Conrad 1848 snail  | |
| 
 Conus  sp. Linnaeus 1758 cone shell  | |
| Bivalvia | |
| 
 Lithophaga  nuda Dall 1898 mussel  | |
"Phacoides (Miltha) hillsboroensis" = Miltha hillsboroensis
 
"Phacoides (Miltha) hillsboroensis" = Miltha hillsboroensis Heilprin 1887 clam  | |
"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  | |
"Cardium  eversum" = Trachycardium eversum
 
"Cardium  eversum" = Trachycardium eversum Conrad 1848 cockle  | |