Chimney Bluff (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Chattahoochee County, Georgia (32.3° N, 84.9° W: paleocoordinates 27.8° N, 38.7° W)

When: Eutaw Formation, Early/Lower Cretaceous (145.0 - 100.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone and claystone

• irregularly bedded, laminated, cross bedded, very lignitic, pyritiferous sand and clay

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Primary reference: E. W. Berry. 1914. The Upper Cretaceous and Eocene floras of South Carolina and Georgia. US Geological Survey Professional Paper 84:1-200 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 212692: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 18.08.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

 Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Sequoia reichenbachi Heer 1868 coast redwood
Angiospermae
 Rosids - Moraceae
Ficus krausiana Heer 1869 fig
Ficus crassipes Heer 1874 fig
 Malpighiales - Salicaceae
Salix lesquereuxii Berry 1914 willow
Salix flexuosa Newberry 1868 willow
Equisetopsida
 Pinidae - Pinidae