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