Where: Clay County, Georgia (31.6° N, 85.0° W: paleocoordinates 34.0° N, 66.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Midway Group, Early/Lower Paleocene to Early/Lower Paleocene (66.0 - 58.7 Ma)
• None beyond group: "Uppermost beds of Midway"
•See also PRI 2220a
• 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 98660: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Ursula Smith on 15.10.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Nuculana saffordana pointed nut clam | |
"Astarte" subpontis clam | |
Corbula subcompressa clam | |
Ostrea crenulimarginata Gabb 1860 oyster | |
Gastropoda | |
Conomitra subpontis ribbed mitre |