New Madrid test well 1-X, 1789 ft (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: New Madrid County, Missouri (36.4° N, 89.6° W: paleocoordinates 37.9° N, 57.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: McNairy Formation, Late/Upper Cretaceous (100.5 - 66.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; glauconitic, micaceous, pyritic, argillaceous sandstone

• Fine- to coarse-grained, glauconitic sand; commonly contains pyrite, mica, and carbonized wood fragments; trace glauconite; interbedded with steel-gray, soft, micaceous, silty clay.

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: original sporopollenin

Reposited in the USGS

Collection methods: core, chemical, hydrochloric, hydroflouric,

Primary reference: N. O. Frederiksen, L. M. Bybell, R. A. Christopher, A. J. Crone, L. E. Edwards, T. G. Gibson, J. E. Hazel, J. E. Repetski, D. P. Russ, C. C. Smith, and L.W. Ward. 1982. Biostratigraphy and paleoecology of lower Paleozoic, upper Cretaceous, and lower Tertiary rocks in U.S. Geological Survey New Madrid test wells, Southeastern Missouri. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 17(2):23-45 [P. Jardine/H. Morck]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 232060: authorized by Phillip Jardine, entered by Hannah Morck on 16.10.2023

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Holkopollenites chemardensis
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Magnoliopsida
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Tricolporites "sp. N" Cookson 1947
Angiospermae
 Proteales -
Triatriopollenites "sp. B" Thomson and Pflug 1953
 Proteales - Proteaceae
Proteacidites "sp. A" Cookson and Couper 1953
Proteacidites "sp. G" Cookson and Couper 1953
Proteacidites "sp. D" Cookson and Couper 1953
Plicatopollis
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Plicatopollis cretacea Frederiksen and Christopher 1978
Plicapollis
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Plicapollis usitatus Tschudy 1975