Jones Girls: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Georgia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
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Rodentia indet.
Bowdich 1821
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Reptilia
- Serpentes
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Serpentes indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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| "snake vertebra" | ||||||||||
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Echinoidea
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Echinoidea indet.
(Leske 1778)
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| "echinoids" | ||||||||||
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Polychaeta
- Sabellida
- Serpulidae
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Serpulidae indet.
Rafinesque 1835
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| "serpulid worm tubes" | ||||||||||
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unclassified
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Bryozoa indet.
Ehrenberg 1831
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| "bryozoans" | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Naticidae
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Polinices duplicatus
(Say 1822)
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| recombined as Neverita duplicatus | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Muricidae
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Eupleura caudata
(Say 1822)
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Olividae
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Oliva sayana
Ravenel 1834
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| recombined as Oliva (Ispidula) sayana | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Terebridae
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Terebra dislocata
(Say 1822)
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| recombined as Strioterebrum dislocatum | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Melongenidae
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Busycon carica
(Gmelin 1792)
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Gastropoda
- Neotaenioglossa
- Calyptraeidae
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Crepidula fornicata
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Gastropoda
- Epitoniidae
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Epitonium rupicola
(Kurtz 1860)
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Bivalvia
- Nuculida
- Nuculidae
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Nucula proxima
Say 1820
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| recombined as Nucula (Nucula) proxima | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Carditidae
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Pleuromeris tridentata
(Say 1826)
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Mactridae
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Mulinia lateralis
(Say 1822)
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Veneridae
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Mercenaria mercenaria
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Donacidae
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Donax variabilis
Say 1822
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| recombined as Serrula variabilis | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Semelidae
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Abra aequalis
(Say 1822)
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Bivalvia
- Lucinida
- Lucinidae
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Divaricella quadrisulcata
(d'Orbigny 1846)
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| recombined as Divalinga quadrisulcata | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Anomiidae
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Anomia simplex
d'Orbigny 1845
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Arcidae
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Anadara transversa
(Say 1822)
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| recombined as Anadara (Larkinia) transversa | ||||||||||
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Anadara ovalis
(Bruguiere 1789)
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| recombined as Lunarca ovalis | ||||||||||
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Anadara brasiliana
(Lamarck 1819)
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| recombined as Anadara (Cunearca) brasiliana | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Noetiidae
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Noetia ponderosa
(Say 1822)
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| recombined as Eontia ponderosa | ||||||||||
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Thecostraca
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Cirripedia indet.
Rafinesque 1816
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| "barnacles" | ||||||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Rhizangiidae
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Astrangia danae
Agassiz 1850
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Georgia | County: | Chatham |
| Coordinates: | 31.9° North, 81.1° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 31.9° North, 81.1° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| Stage: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | *Epoch: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | *Local age/stage: | Sangamonian |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | Zone: | oxygen isotope stage 5 |
| Age range of interval: | 0.12900 - 0.01170 m.y. ago | ||
| Age estimate: | 85 Ka (U/Th) | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: U-series date of "about 80 ka" local section is "3 to 4 m thick" but main shell bed is "more than a meter thick in places" | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | shelly/skeletal sandstone |
| Lithology description: "a mixture of fine to medium-sized, rounded to subangular quartz sand grains, and the shells or shell fragments of mollusks and other invertebrates" | |
| Environment: | lagoonal |
| Glacial or sequence phase: | interglacial |
| Geology comments: "similar to modern... tidal inlet channels... resembles descriptions of backbarrier and foreshore facies" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils | ||
| Collection methods: | bulk,sieve | ||
| Minimum sieve size: | 1.400 | Maximum sieve size: | 6.200 |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Taxonomic list comments:only one mammalian specimen numerous additional molluscan and other invertebrate taxa are present but not listed | |||
Metadata
| Database number: | 20606 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | W. Kiessling | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2002-05-15 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2012-04-26 03:25:26 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-05-15 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 1962. | R. C. Hulbert, Jr. and A. E. Pratt. 1998. Pleistocene (Rancholabrean) vertebrate faunas from coastal Georgia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18(2):412-429 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] |