USGS-SCDNR Clark Middle School core, 489.3 ft (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as ORG-393, 489.3 ft

Where: Orangeburg County, South Carolina (33.5° N, 80.9° W: paleocoordinates 35.5° N, 58.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone and claystone

• Interbedded sand and clay.

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: original sporopollenin

Collected by SCDNR and USGS

Collection methods: core, chemical, hydrochloric, hydroflouric

• Collected by South Carolina Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR) and the US Geological Survey (USGS).

•Samples were processed in the US Geological Survey's palynology lab in Reston, Virginia, and in ARCO's palynology lab in Plano, Texas, using standard palynological processing techniques.

•Curated in the palynology collection in the Department of Geological Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina.

Primary reference: R. A. Christopher and D. C. Prowell. 2002. A palynological biozonation for the Maastrichtian Stage (Upper Cretaceous) of South Carolina, USA. Cretaceous Research 23:639-669 [P. Jardine/P. Jardine]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 233535: authorized by Phillip Jardine, entered by Hannah Morck on 13.02.2024

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Taxonomic list

• The taxonomic list includes only species relevant to a stratigraphic framework.
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Plicapollis
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Plicapollis usitatus
Plicapollis usitatus Tschudy 1975