USGS Clubhouse Crossroads corehole 1, sample DC-39 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Dorchester County County, South Carolina (32.9° N, 80.4° W: paleocoordinates 31.7° N, 49.6° W)

When: Black Creek Formation, Santonian (86.3 - 83.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

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 and R. A. Christopher. 1978. Taxonomy and Biostratigraphy of Late Cretaceous and Paleogene Triatriate Pollen from South Carolina. Palynology 2:113-145 [P. Jardine/P. Jardine]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 229028: authorized by Phillip Jardine, entered by Phillip Jardine on 01.02.2023

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Holkopollenites
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Angiospermae
 Fagales - Juglandaceae
Momipites fragilis Frederiksen and Christopher 1978
Trudopollis
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Plicapollis
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Complexiopollis
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Complexiopollis sp. Krutzsch 1959