Where: Clay County, Georgia (31.6° N, 85.0° W: paleocoordinates 34.1° N, 65.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Midway Group, Danian to Danian (66.0 - 59.2 Ma)
• This station cannot be further refined stratigraphically.
• group-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 98637: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Ursula Smith on 15.10.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Cerithium gainesense cerith snail | |
Bivalvia | |