Also known as FLO-274

Where: Florence County, South Carolina (33.9° N, 79.8° W: paleocoordinates 34.4° N, 51.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Coachman Formation, Middle Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; claystone

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: original sporopollenin

Collected by USGS

Collection methods: core, chemical, hydrochloric, hydroflouric

• Collected by 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. 2010. A palynological biozonation for the uppermost Santonian and Campanian Stages (Upper Cretaceous) of South Carolina, USA. Cretaceous Research 31(2):101-129 [P. Jardine/H. Morck]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 233771: authorized by Phillip Jardine, entered by Hannah Morck on 28.02.2024

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