GEa-1 Hatchetigbee (Eocene of the United States)

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

• None for this site. The lithology description is for the Bashi in general.

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

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Taxonomic list

Pisces
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"Pisces indet." = Osteichthyes
"Pisces indet." = Osteichthyes Huxley 1880 bony fish
Vertebra
Chondrichthyes
 Selachii -
Selachii indet. shark
teeth
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Chlamys choctavensis Aldrich 1895 scallop
 Carditida - Carditidae
"Venericardia horatiana" = Venericardia (Venericor) horatiana Gardner 1927 clam
Venericardia bashiplata Gardner and Bowles 1939 clam