USGS 5376, Pataula Creek (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Clay County, Georgia (31.7° N, 85.1° W: paleocoordinates 34.6° N, 63.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Providence Sand Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by O. Veatch; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: C. W. Cooke. 1953. American Upper Cretaceous Echinoidea. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 254-A:1-44 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 78129: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 29.01.2008

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Cassiduloida -
"Cassidulus conoideus n. sp." = Clarkiella hemispherica
"Cassidulus conoideus n. sp." = Clarkiella hemispherica Slocum 1909 sea urchin