SCGS 2-49 (14 m) - Aiken Co. Road 14 [Griffins Landing Mbr, Dry Branch Fm]: Late/Upper Eocene, Georgia
collected by Kite 1983
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri
- Scombriformes
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cf. Sphyraenodus sp.
Agassiz 1839
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Chondrichthyes
- Carcharhiniformes
- Sphyrnidae
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Negaprion gilmorei
(Leriche 1942)
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original and current combination Sphyrna gilmorei | |||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Carcharhiniformes
- Scyliorhinidae
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Abdounia enniskilleni
(White 1956)
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Chondrichthyes
- Carcharhiniformes
- Carcharhinidae
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Physogaleus sp.
Cappetta 1980
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Carchariidae
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Carcharias sp.
Rafinesque 1810
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Thecostraca
- Balanomorpha
- Balanidae
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Kathpalmeria georgiana
Ross 1965
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Hesperibalanus huddlestuni
Zullo and Kite 1985
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Thecostraca
- Pollicipomorpha
- Zeugmatolepadidae
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Aporolepas howei
Cheetham 1963
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Georgia | County: | Burke |
Coordinates: | 33.6° North, 81.4° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 33.6° North, 73.4° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
Stage: | Priabonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 3 |
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Eocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 37.71000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Dry Branch | Member: | Griffins Landing | ||
Local section: | SCGS 2-49 | Local bed: | 14 m | ||
Local order: | top to bottom | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Griffins Landing Mbr of the Dry Branch Fm, which locally overlies the Huber Fm (Paleocene-middle Eocene) and is overlain by the Tobaco Road Sand (late Eocene). AGE: Late Eocene (Jacksonian) and considered correlative with the Moodys Branch Fm and Cocoa Sand. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Presumably from 12.20-15.25 m below surface in SCGS 2-49 augur hole. |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | shelly/skeletal lithified sandy claystone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: LITHOLOGY: Sandy biomicrudite/claystone. LITHIFICATION: Lithified. | |
Environment: | coastal indet. |
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Subtidal to inner shelf environment. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | core,survey of museum collection | ||
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
Collectors: | Kite | Collection dates: | 1983 |
Collection method comments: COLLECTORS: L. Kite, 1983. REPOSITORY: University of South Carolina, McKissick Museum | |||
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Limited to Cirripedia. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature, and species resolution identifications. |
Metadata
Database number: | 160400 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Hendy, P. Holroyd | Enterer: | A. Hendy, P. Holroyd |
Modifier: | P. Holroyd | Research group: | marine invertebrate,vertebrate |
Created: | 2014-08-19 23:56:30 | Last modified: | 2019-06-17 15:20:20 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2014-08-19 23:56:30 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
52308. | V. A. Zullo and L. E. Kite. 1985. Barnacles of the Jacksonian (Upper Eocene) Griffins Landing Member, Dry Branch Formation in South Carolina and Georgia. South Carolina Geology 28(1):1-21 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |
Secondary references:
69202 | D. J. Cicimurri and J. L. Knight. 2019. Late Eocene (Priabonian) elasmobranchs from the Dry Branch Formation (Barnwell Group) of Aiken County, South Carolina, USA. PaleoBios 36(43964):1-31 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd] |