USGS 7118 (Oligocene of the United States)

Also known as Station 7118

Where: Worth County, Georgia (31.8° N, 84.0° W: paleocoordinates 31.9° N, 77.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Flint River Formation, Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• Shallow-water carbonate environment.
• Limestone.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression, replaced with silica

Primary reference: W. C. Mansfield. 1940. Mollusks of the Chickasawhay Marl. Journal of Paleontology 14(3):171-226 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 205832: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 24.10.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Cassidae
Cassis flintensis n. sp.
Cassis flintensis n. sp. Mansfield 1940 snail