USGS Clubhouse Crossroads corehole 1, sample DC-27 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Dorchester County County, South Carolina (32.9° N, 80.4° W: paleocoordinates 33.8° N, 52.6° W)

When: Peedee Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 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 229016: 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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Holkopollenites chemardensis2 Stover et al. 1966
Brevicolporites
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Brevicolporites "sp. B"1 Anderson 1960
Retitricolpites
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"Retitricolpites" "sp. F"1 Van der Hammen 1956
Angiospermae
 Fagales - Juglandaceae
Momipites dilatus Stover et al. 1966
 Fagales - Casuarinaceae
Casuarinidites "sp. A", "Casuarinidites cf. granilabratus" = Casuarinidites convexus1
Casuarinidites "sp. A" Cookson and Pike 1954
"Casuarinidites cf. granilabratus" = Casuarinidites convexus1 Groot and Groot 1962
 Proteales - Proteaceae
Proteacidites "sp. B"1 Cookson and Couper 1953
Proteacidites "sp. A"1 Cookson and Couper 1953
Proteacidites "sp. C"1 Cookson and Couper 1953
Osculapollis aequalis
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Osculapollis aequalis1 Tschudy 1975
Pseudoplicapollis
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Plicapollis
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Plicapollis "sp. B"1 Pflug 1953
Plicapollis usitatus1 Tschudy 1975