USGS Clubhouse Crossroads corehole 1, sample DC-22 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Dorchester County County, South Carolina (32.9° N, 80.4° W: paleocoordinates 34.8° N, 57.7° W)

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

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: original sporopollenin

Reposited in the USGS

Collection methods: core, chemical, hydrochloric, hydroflouric

• Slides of the Clubhouse Crossroads Core material are on file at the US Geological Survey, Reston VA

Primary reference: N. O. Frederiksen and R. A. Christopher. 1978. Taxonomy and Biostratigraphy of Late Cretaceous and Paleogene Triatriate Pollen from South Carolina. Palynology 2:113-145 [P. Jardine/P. Jardine]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 229011: authorized by Phillip Jardine, entered by Phillip Jardine on 01.02.2023

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Holkopollenites chemardensis
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Angiospermae
 Fagales - Juglandaceae
 Proteales - Proteaceae
Proteacidites "sp. B" Cookson and Couper 1953
Plicatopollis
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Plicatopollis cretacea Frederiksen and Christopher 1978
Pseudoplicapollis
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Plicapollis
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Plicapollis usitatus Tschudy 1975