M 701 (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Clay County, Georgia (31.6° N, 85.0° W: paleocoordinates 32.0° N, 76.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Moodys Branch Formation (Jackson Group), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• "Ocala Group"

• 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 98636: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Ursula Smith on 15.10.2010

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Mactridae
Spisula cf. praetenuis Conrad 1833 clam