USGS Loc. 13388 - Waynesboro [Chickasawhay Lmst] (Oligocene of the United States)

Where: Wayne County, Alabama (31.6° N, 88.7° W: paleocoordinates 32.0° N, 83.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Chickasawhay Limestone Formation, Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Chicasawhay Limestone, for which lithostratigraphic relations are not discussed. AGE: Late Oligocene in text. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position in local section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: poorly lithified, medium-grained, coarse, glauconitic, brown, yellow limestone

• No paleoenvironmental information reported.
• LITHOLOGY: Limestone, medium to coarse, sandy, semi-indurated, cream-colored to tan, glauconitic, very fossiliferous. LITHIFICATION: Poorly-lithified, on the basis of facies description.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Cooke, Munyan; reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: C.W. Cooke. REPOSITORY: USNM.

Primary reference: C. W. Cooke. 1959. Cenozoic echinoids of eastern United States. United States Geological Survey Professional Papers 321:1-106 [L. Villier/L. Villier/M. Hopkins]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 155934: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 04.05.2014, edited by Mark Uhen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Limited to echinoidea, but molluscs are probably present. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication with species-resolution identifications, but somewhat antiquated nomenclature.
Echinoidea
 Temnopleuroida -
"Thylechinus (Gagaria) chickasawhay n. sp." = Gagaria chickasawhay1
"Thylechinus (Gagaria) chickasawhay n. sp." = Gagaria chickasawhay1 Cooke 1941 sea urchin
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
"Ostrea vicksburgensis" = Lopha (Lopha) vicksburgensis2
"Ostrea vicksburgensis" = Lopha (Lopha) vicksburgensis2 Conrad 1848 oyster
 Thraciida - Periplomatidae
Periploma sp.2 Schumacher 1816 clam