Also known as TH-2, 21.3-24.4 m (A)
Where: Kemper County County, Mississippi (32.8° N, 88.8° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 37.5° N, 59.5° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate estimated from map
• hand sample-level geographic resolution
When: Nanafalia Formation, Paleocene (66.0 - 56.0 Ma)
• Middle or upper part of formation.
•The sampled part of the core section was tentatively considered to be within the Nanafalia formation.
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; shelly/skeletal claystone
Size class: microfossils
Preservation: original sporopollenin
Collected by N. O. Frederiksen; reposited in the USGS
Collection methods: core, chemical, hydrochloric, hydroflouric,
• Slides are stored at the U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia
Primary reference: N. O. Frederiksen. 1998. Upper Paleocene and Lowermost Eocene Angiosperm Pollen Biostratigraphy of the Eastern Gulf Coast and Virginia. Micropaleontology 44(1):45-68 [P. Jardine/P. Jardine]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 231190: authorized by Phillip Jardine, entered by Hannah Morck on 07.08.2023
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Angiospermae | |
Sparganiaceaepollenites spp. Thiergart 1937 | |
Carya "less than 29 µm" Nuttall 1818 hickory | |
Dicotyledoneae | |