Fiske property (Eocene of the United States)

Also known as Grovetown

Where: Columbia County, Georgia (33.5° N, 82.2° W: paleocoordinates 33.6° N, 73.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Congaree Member (McBean Formation), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; claystone

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: adpression

Primary reference: E. W. Berry. 1914. The Upper Cretaceous and Eocene floras of South Carolina and Georgia. US Geological Survey Professional Paper 84:1-200 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 212696: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 18.08.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Dicotyledoneae
 Myrtales - Combretaceae
Terminalia phaecarpoides, Terminalia phaeocarpoides n. sp., Conocarpus eocenica n. sp.
Terminalia phaeocarpoides n. sp. Berry 1914
Conocarpus eocenica n. sp. Berry 1914
Angiospermae
 Mesangiosperms - Araceae
Pistia claibornensis n. sp., Thrinax eocenica n. sp.
Pistia claibornensis n. sp. Berry 1914 water cabbage
Thrinax eocenica n. sp. Berry 1914
 Rosids - Moraceae
Ficus claibornensis n. sp.
Ficus claibornensis n. sp. Berry 1914 fig
 Fagales - Fagaceae
Castanea claibornensis n. sp.
Castanea claibornensis n. sp. Berry 1914 chestnut
 Rosales - Mimosaceae
Mimosites georgiaus
 Sapindales - Sapindaceae
Dodonaea viscosoides n. sp.
Dodonaea viscosoides n. sp. Berry 1914 soapberry
Ascomycota
 Sphaeriales - Sphaeriaceae
Sphaerites claibornensis