Where: Crawford County, Georgia (32.6° N, 84.0° W: paleocoordinates 32.3° N, 53.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Buffalo Creek Member (Gailard Formation), Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)

• Age is based on the presence of terrestrial palynomorphs that are considered to be biostratigraphically equivalent to those in marine units assigned to the Late Santonian based on calcareous nannofossil zone CC17 (R. Christopher unpublished data). Herendeen et al. 1999: 410.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fine channel fill; unlithified claystone and unlithified sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: adpression, charcoalification, original carbon, original sporopollenin

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

Primary reference: P. S. Herendeen, S. Magallon-Puebla, R. Lupia, P. R. Crane, and J. Kobylinska. 1999. A prelimimary conspectus of the Allon flora from the Late Cretaceous (Late Santonian) of central Georgia, U.S.A. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 89(2):407-471 [H. Wang/H. Wang/H. Wang]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 28320: authorized by Hongshan Wang, entered by Hongshan Wang on 07.02.2003, edited by Monica Arakaki

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