Sohl and Koch OFR # 301: Early/Lower Maastrichtian, Georgia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus sedesclaris
1 specimen
Modiolus sedesclaris Gardner
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Flemingostreidae
Cubitostrea tecticosta (Gabb 1860)
1 specimen
Cubitostrea tecticosta (Gabb)
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Lima (Lima) reticulata Forbes 1845
1 specimen
recombined as Lima reticulata
Lima (Lima) reticulata Lyell & For
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Anomia (Anomia) argentaria Morton 1833
1 specimen
Anomia (Anomia) argentaria Morton
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Camptonectes (Camptonectes) sp. Meek 1864
1 specimen
Camptonectes (Comptonectes) sp.
Camptonectes (Camptonectes) bubonis (Stephenson 1941)
2 specimens
Camptonectes (Camptonectes) bubonis (
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Entoliidae
Syncyclonema simplicius
7 specimens
Syncylonema simplicus (Conrad) - originally entered as "Syncylonema simplicius"
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Striarca saffordi
1 specimen
Striarca saffordi (Gardner) non Gab
Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae
Bathytormus pteropsis (Conrad 1860)
3 specimens
Bathytormus pteropsis (Conrad)
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Trachycardium eufaulensis (Conrad 1860)
4 specimens
Trachycardium eufaulensis (Conrad)
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Mactridae
Cymbophora berryi
3 specimens
Cymbophora berryi (Gardner)
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbula sp. Bruguière 1789
2 specimens
Corbula sp.
Corbula monmouthensis Gardner 1916
1 specimen
Corbula monmouthensis Gardner
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Nymphalucina ? linearea (Stephenson 1941)
1 specimen
recombined as Nymphalucina linearia
Nymphalucina ? linearea (Stephenso - originally entered as "Nymphalucina ? linearea"
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Paladmetidae
Paladmete cancellaria Conrad 1858
1 specimen
Paladmete cancellaria (Conrad)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
? Drilluta sp. Wade 1916
1 specimen
Drilluta ? sp. - originally entered as "Drilluta ? sp."
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Georgia County:Quitman
Coordinates: 31.8° North, 85.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.6° North, 63.1° 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:Hatcher Well Local bed:235
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Foraminiferal zonation from King and Skotnicki, 1992.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray argillaceous,carbonaceous sandstone
Environment:marine indet. Tectonic setting:passive margin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
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:Hatcher Well 1; USGS # 32797 : 98
Database number:4334
Authorizer:M. Kosnik Enterer:M. Kosnik
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:GCP,marine invertebrate
Created:1999-08-14 13:00:00 Last modified:2017-07-28 16:23:21
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]