Where: Webster County, Georgia (32.1° N, 84.5° W: paleocoordinates 34.5° N, 64.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Clayton Formation (Midway Group), Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: mesofossils
Primary reference: K. V. Palmer and D. C. Brann. 1965. Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Peteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda. Bulletins of American Paleontology 48:1-471 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 92153: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 02.11.2009, edited by Ursula Smith
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Turritella aldrichi turret shell
Mesalia pumila Gabb 1860 turret shell |