Where: Early County, Georgia (31.4° N, 85.1° W: paleocoordinates 33.0° N, 70.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Bashi Member (Hatchetigbee Bluff Formation), Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)
• None.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; unlithified, fine-grained, glauconitic, sandy, calcareous marl
Size class: mesofossils
Primary reference: L. D. Toulmin. 1977. Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region. Geological Survey of Alabama, Monograph 13(1):1-602 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 80789: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 08.05.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Pisces | |
"Pisces indet." = Osteichthyes
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Chondrichthyes | |
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Bivalvia | |
cf. Ostrea sinuosa oyster | |
Chlamys choctavensis Aldrich 1895 scallop | |
"Venericardia horatiana" = Venericardia (Venericor) horatiana, Venericardia bashiplata
"Venericardia horatiana" = Venericardia (Venericor) horatiana Gardner 1927 clam
Venericardia bashiplata Gardner and Bowles 1939 clam |