Sohl and Koch OFR # 280: Early/Lower Maastrichtian, Georgia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca
Malacostraca indet. (Latreille 1802)
Crab parts
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana sp. Link 1807
1 specimen
Nuculana sp.
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pteriidae
Pteria sp. Scopoli 1777
1 specimen
Pteria sp.
Bivalvia - Carditida - Condylocardiidae
Uddenia texana Stephenson 1941
12 specimens
recombined as Cuna texana
Uddenia texana Stephenson
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Aenona eufaulensis Conrad 1860
21 specimens
Aenona eufaulensis (Conrad)
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Mactridae
Cymbophora berryi
60 specimens
Cymbophora berryi (Gardner)
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Cyclorisma parva
2 specimens
Cyclorisma parva (Gardner)
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbula subradiata
3 specimens
Corbula subradiata Gardner
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Myrtea stephensoni
1 specimen
Myrtea stephensoni Gardner
Nymphalucina ? linearea (Stephenson 1941)
59 specimens
recombined as Nymphalucina linearia
Nymphalucina ? linearea (Stephenso - originally entered as "Nymphalucina ? linearea"
Scaphopoda - Gadilida - Gadilidae
Cadulus obnutus
2 specimens
Cadulus obnutus (Conrad)
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Acteonidae
Zikkuratia tabannensis Sohl 1963
2 specimens
corrected as Zikkuratia tabanneensis
Zikkuratia tabannensis Sohl
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Pyramidellidae
Creonella triplicata Wade 1917
7 specimens
Creonella triplicata Wade
Gastropoda - Iravadiidae
Nozeba sp. n. sp. Iredale 1915
1 specimen
Nozeba n. sp. - originally entered as "Nozeba n. sp."
Gastropoda - Rissoidae
Rissoa sp. n. sp. Fréminville 1814
9 specimens
Rissoa n. sp. (lirate) - originally entered as "Rissoa n. sp."
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Euspira rectilabrum (Conrad 1858)
7 specimens
Euspira rectilabrum (Conrad)
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella (Sohlitella) bilira (Stephenson 1941)
7 specimens
recombined as Haustator bilira
Turritella (Sohlitella) bilira (St
Turritella sp. n. sp. Lamarck 1799
11 specimens
Turritella n. sp. (Multilirate) - originally entered as "Turritella n. sp."
unclassified
Vertebrata indet. Lamarck 1801
Otolith
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Georgia County:Clay
Coordinates: 31.7° North, 85.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.6° North, 63.3° West
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 8
*Period:Late/Upper Cretaceous *Epoch:Late/Upper Senonian
*International age/stage:Middle - Late/Upper Maastrichtian
Key time interval:Early/Lower Maastrichtian Foram zone: Contusotruncana contusa
Age range of interval:70.60000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Providence
Local section:Ft. Gaines NE Local bed:112
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Foraminiferal zonation from King and Skotnicki, 1992.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray carbonaceous claystone
Environment:marine indet. Tectonic setting:passive margin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original aragonite,original calcite
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:core
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Museum repositories:USGS
Collection method comments: Subsurface data 1981-83
Metadata
Also known as:Ft. Gaines NE 112 ft; USGS # 32253
Database number:4316
Authorizer:M. Kosnik Enterer:M. Kosnik
Modifier:M. Manojlovic Research group:GCP,marine invertebrate
Created:1999-08-14 13:00:00 Last modified:2016-07-25 21:49:09
Access level:the public Released:1999-08-14 13:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

281. N. F. Sohl and C. F. Koch. 1987. Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) larger invertebrates from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the Atlantic Coastal Plain with further data for the East Gulf. USGS Open File Report 87-194:1-172 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik]

Secondary references:

29915 J. A. Sessa, T. J. Bralower, M. E. Patzkowsky, J. C. Handley, and L. C. Ivany. 2012. Environmental and biological controls on the diversity and ecology of Late Cretaceous through early Paleogene marine ecosystems in the US Gulf Coastal Plain. Paleobiology 38(2):218-239 [M. Patzkowsky/J. Sessa/J. Sessa]