Chattahoochee River, Slick Bluff (USGS 845, 5387) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Macon County, Alabama (32.3° N, 85.0° W: paleocoordinates 32.2° N, 54.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Eutaw Formation, Santonian (86.3 - 83.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified, gray, green, sandy claystone and sandstone

• greenish-gray clay...at some earlier time was affected by earth movements that produced sand-filled fissures, now appearing as so-called sandstone dikes.

Reposited in the USGS

Primary reference: L. W. Stephenson. 1956. Fossils from the Eutaw Formation, Chattahoochee River region, Alabama-Georgia. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 274-J:227-250 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 5193: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 01.09.1999

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Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Legumen aff. carolinense, Cyprimeria cf. depressa
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
? Caryocorbula georgiana
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea ucheensis