USGS 5390 Banks Landing (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Stewart County, Georgia (32.2° N, 84.9° W: paleocoordinates 35.1° N, 62.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ripley Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; sandstone

• relatively shallow water of the neritic zone near shore

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. W. Wells. 1933. Corals of the Cretaceous of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains and Western Interior of the United States. Bulletins of American Paleontology 18(67):85-288 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 123401: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 20.01.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Trochocyathus woolmani
Trochocyathus woolmani Vaughan 1900 stony coral