GTw-1 Gosport: Bartonian, Georgia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Mesalia vetusta (Conrad 1833)
1 specimen
Turritella spp.
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
? Pitar sp. Römer 1857
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Lirodiscus tellinoides (Conrad 1833)
1 specimen
original and current combination Astarte tellinoides
Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae
Crassatella sp. Lamarck 1799
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula ovula Lea 1833
1 specimen
recombined as Nucula (Nucula) ovula
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana sp. Link 1807
1 specimen
Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium thalloides
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Georgia County:Twiggs
Coordinates: 32.7° North, 83.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.0° North, 74.5° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Bartonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 3
Key time interval:Bartonian
Age range of interval:41.30000 - 38.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Claiborne Formation:Gosport Sand
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:glauconitic unlithified sandy sandstone
Lithology description: The basal sand of the Gosport consists of poorly sorted grains of quartz and glauconite and abundant broken and worn shark teeth. Gosport fossils are abundant internal and external molds in friable quartz sand held together by white kaolin in No. 15 Mine.
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:cast,mold/impression
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:81264
Authorizer:A. Miller Enterer:J. Sessa
Modifier:U. Smith Research group:GCP,marine invertebrate
Created:2008-06-14 20:08:05 Last modified:2010-10-15 00:30:35
Access level:the public Released:2008-06-14 20:08:05
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

124. L. D. Toulmin. 1977. Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region. Geological Survey of Alabama, Monograph 13(1):1-602 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou/P. Mannion]