M 327 (Oligocene of the United States)

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

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
Cerithium platynema cerith snail