Where: Plymouth County, Massachusetts (42.1° N, 70.7° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 43.3° N, 63.6° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)

• From 14.5-15 ft (4.4-4.6 m) below surface. Woodworth and Wigglesworth (1934, p. 21) listed the few taxa of fossils found in the greensand near Marshfield, and, on the basis of both fossils and lithology, they considered this bed probably to be the same unit as the greensand at Gay Head (Collection number 231784).

Environment/lithology: marine; green sandstone

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: original sporopollenin

Collected by C. A. Kaye; reposited in the USGS

Collection methods: bulk, chemical, hydrochloric, hydroflouric,

• Stored at the U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Va.

Primary reference: N. O. Frederiksen. 1984. Stratigraphic, Paleoclimatic, and Paleobiogeographic Significance of Tertiary Sporomorphs from Massachusetts. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1308:1-35 [P. Jardine/H. Morck/H. Morck]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 231797: authorized by Phillip Jardine, entered by Hannah Morck on 11.09.2023

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