Where: Clay County, Georgia (31.6° N, 85.0° W: paleocoordinates 34.1° N, 65.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Clayton Formation (Midway Group), Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)
• See also PRI 2220b
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: mesofossils
Primary reference: K. V. Palmer and D. C. Brann. 1965. Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Peteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda. Bulletins of American Paleontology 48:1-471 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 90641: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 11.08.2009, edited by Ursula Smith
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Turritella tennesseensis turret shell | |
cf. Volutilithes florencis volute | |
Bivalvia | |
Arca "sp. A" Linnaeus 1758 ark |