Where: Screven County, Georgia (32.8° N, 81.6° W: paleocoordinates 32.8° N, 75.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Flint River Formation (Vicksburg Group), Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)
• "Probably Flint River Fm"
• member-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 92155: 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 | |
Cerithium platynema cerith snail |