McBrides Ford (Cretaceous to of the United States)

Where: Chattahoochee County, Georgia (32.4° N, 84.8° W: paleocoordinates 31.9° N, 53.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Eutaw Formation, Late/Upper Coniacian to Late/Upper Coniacian (89.3 - 83.6 Ma)

• R. Christopher (1982) suggested possible stratigraphical equivalence between Eutaw Formation and the Austin Group (Coniacian-Santonian) of Texas. Calcareous nannofossils support middle Santonian age.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; unlithified, gray, sandy, carbonaceous mudstone and unlithified sandstone

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: adpression, charcoalification, original carbon, original sporopollenin

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

Primary reference: E. W. Berry. 1914. The Upper Cretaceous and Eocene floras of South Carolina and Georgia. US Geological Survey Professional Paper 84:1-200 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 28321: authorized by Hongshan Wang, entered by Hongshan Wang on 08.02.2003, edited by Mark Uhen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Equisetopsida
 Pinidae - Pinidae
Brachyphyllum macrocarpum Newberry 1896
subspecies formosum
Angiospermae
 Malvales - Malvaceae
Manihotites georgiana Berry 1910 mallow
 Malpighiales - Salicaceae
Salix flexuosa Newberry 1868 willow
 Fagales - Juglandaceae
Juglans arctica Heer 1882 walnut
 Rosales - Rhamnaceae
Zizyphus laurifolius n. sp. Berry 1914 buckthorn
Paliurus upatoiensis n. sp. Berry 1914 buckthorn
 Rosids - Moraceae
Ficus ovatifolia Newberry 1896 fig
Dicotyledoneae
 Ericales - Ericaceae
Andromeda cretacea Lesquereux 1892 heather
Andromeda wardiana Lesquereux 1892 heather
 Myrtales - Myrtaceae
Eucalyptus angusta Velenovsky 1885 eucalyptus
Angiospermae
 Magnoliales - Magnoliaceae
Magnolia capellinii Heer 1866 magnolia
Magnolia boulayana Lesquereux 1892 magnolia
 Apiales - Araliaceae
Aralia eutawensis n. sp. Berry 1914 spikenard
 Ranunculales - Menispermaceae
Menispermites variabilis n. sp. Berry 1914
 Laurales - Lauraceae
Cinnamomum newberryi Berry 1914 cinnamon
Cinnamomum heerii Berry 1914 cinnamon
 Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Sequoia reichenbachi Heer 1868 coast redwood
 Coniferales -
Androvettia elegans n. sp. Berry 1914
Pinopsida
 Pinales - Taxaceae
Tumion carolinianum Berry 1908 yew
Quadriplatanus
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Quadriplatanus georgianus n. gen. n. sp. Magallon-Puebla et al. 1997