USGS Clubhouse Crossroads corehole 1, sample DC-12 (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Dorchester County County, South Carolina (32.9° N, 80.4° W: paleocoordinates 34.3° N, 61.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Black Mingo Formation, Paleocene (66.0 - 56.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; gray, silty limestone

• Limestone, light gray, silty

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: original sporopollenin

Reposited in the USGS

Collection methods: core, chemical, hydrochloric, hydroflouric

• Slides of the Clubhouse Crossroads Core material are on file at the US Geological Survey, Reston VA

Primary reference: N. O. Frederiksen. 1978. New Paleogene pollen species from the Gulf and Atlantic Coastal Plains. Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey 6(5):691-696 [P. Jardine/P. Jardine]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 219102: authorized by Phillip Jardine, entered by Phillip Jardine on 18.03.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Angiospermae
 Fagales - Casuarinaceae
Casuarinidites pulcher, Casuarinidites convexus, Casuarinidites sparsus n. sp.
Casuarinidites convexus Groot and Groot 1962
Casuarinidites sparsus n. sp. Frederiksen and Christopher 1978
 Fagales - Juglandaceae
Platycarya "sp. A", ? Carya spp., Carya "(smaller than 29 µm)", Momipites "tenuipolus Group", Momipites microfoveolatus, Momipites strictus n. sp., Momipites coryloides, Momipites dilatus
Platycarya "sp. A" Siebold and Zuccarini 1843
? Carya spp. Nuttall 1818 hickory
Carya "(smaller than 29 µm)" Nuttall 1818 hickory
Momipites strictus n. sp. Frederiksen and Christopher 1978
Momipites coryloides Wodehouse 1933
Momipites dilatus Stover et al. 1966
Subtriporopollenites anulatus
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Subtriporopollenites anulatus
Subtriporopollenites anulatus Thomson and Pflug 1953
Plicatopollis
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Plicatopollis "triorbicularis type", Plicatopollis "lunata type", Plicatopollis "plicata type"
Pseudoplicapollis
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Pseudoplicapollis limitata n. sp.
Pseudoplicapollis limitata n. sp. Frederiksen 1978