Miss. Bureau of Geology test hole 2, sample R4483G (Paleocene of the United States)

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

• Dinocysts are present, but not recorded by name.
unclassified
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Angiospermae
 Poales - Typhaceae
 Fagales - Juglandaceae
Momipites flexus
tentatively interpreted to be a reworked specimen
Carya "less than 29 µm" Nuttall 1818 hickory
Dicotyledoneae
 Ericales -