Where: Worth County, Georgia (31.4° N, 84.0° W: paleocoordinates 31.5° N, 77.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Bridgeboro Limestone Formation, Early/Lower Oligocene (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)
• type locality of formation
•"Three (~1-3 m thick) zones of matrix-rich, algal-poor beds... occur within the quarry section. One of these zones corresponds to the upper 2 meters of the section and was sampled for paleoecologic analyses"
•fauna indicates a "Lower Oligocene" or "Vicksburgian" age
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; poorly lithified, concretionary, calcareous, cherty/siliceous sandstone and lithified, concretionary limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collection methods: repository unclear
Primary reference: J. P. Manker and B. D. Carter. 1987. Paleoecology and paleogeography of an extensive rhodolith facies from the Lower Oligocene of south Georgia and north Florida. Palaios 2(2):181-188 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 90567: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 06.08.2009, edited by Keenan Hassell
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
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Anthozoa | |
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? Trochocyathus sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
Echinoidea | |
? Prionocidaris sp. Agassiz 1863 pencil urchin | |
Clypeaster cotteaui Egozcue 1897 sand dollar | |
Rhyncholampas gouldii Bouvé 1846 sea urchin | |
Brissus sp. Gray 1825 heart urchin | |
Gymnolaemata | |
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Gastropoda | |
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Ampullina cf. flintensis snail | |
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell | |
Cerithium cf. hernandoensis cerith snail | |
Conus sp. Linnaeus 1758 cone shell | |
Bivalvia | |
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? Pitar sp. Römer 1857 venus clam | |
Phacoides sp. Blainville 1825 clam | |
Lithophaga nuda Dall 1898 mussel | |
Ostrea "sp. A" Linnaeus 1758 oyster
Ostrea "sp. B" Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Lima sp. Bruguière 1797 file clam | |
Chlamys duncanensis Mansfield 1934 scallop
Chlamys sp. Röding 1798 scallop | |
Glycymeris cf. cookei Dall 1916 clam | |
Florideophyceae | |
Foraminifera | |
"Foraminiferida indet." = Foraminifera
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