Where: Decatur County, Georgia (30.9° N, 84.6° W: paleocoordinates 31.0° N, 78.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Flint River Formation, Early/Lower Oligocene (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)

• From upper bed. Assigned to Lower Oligocene (Rupelinan) by Scott et al. 2001 following mapping by Cooke (1945).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, cherty/siliceous limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression, replaced with silica

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Collected by Vaughan, Cooke and Mansfield (1914). Reposted in USNM collections.

Primary reference: W. H. Dall. 1916. A contribution to the invertebrate fauna of the Oligocene beds of Flint, River. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 51(2162):487-524 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 60835: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 24.05.2006

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