SCGS 2-49 (14 m) - Aiken Co. Road 14 [Griffins Landing Mbr, Dry Branch Fm]: Late/Upper Eocene, Georgia
collected by Kite 1983

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri - Scombriformes
cf. Sphyraenodus sp. Agassiz 1839
Cicimurri and Knight 2019
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Sphyrnidae
Negaprion gilmorei (Leriche 1942)
Cicimurri and Knight 2019
original and current combination Sphyrna gilmorei
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Scyliorhinidae
Abdounia enniskilleni (White 1956)
Cicimurri and Knight 2019
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
Physogaleus sp. Cappetta 1980
Cicimurri and Knight 2019
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Carchariidae
Carcharias sp. Rafinesque 1810
Cicimurri and Knight 2019
Thecostraca - Balanomorpha - Balanidae
Kathpalmeria georgiana Ross 1965
Hesperibalanus huddlestuni Zullo and Kite 1985
Thecostraca - Pollicipomorpha - Zeugmatolepadidae
Aporolepas howei Cheetham 1963
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Georgia County:Burke
Coordinates: 33.6° North, 81.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.6° North, 73.4° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Priabonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 3
Key time interval:Late/Upper Eocene
Age range of interval:37.71000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Dry Branch Member:Griffins Landing
Local section:SCGS 2-49 Local bed:14 m
Local order:top to bottom
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Griffins Landing Mbr of the Dry Branch Fm, which locally overlies the Huber Fm (Paleocene-middle Eocene) and is overlain by the Tobaco Road Sand (late Eocene). AGE: Late Eocene (Jacksonian) and considered correlative with the Moodys Branch Fm and Cocoa Sand. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Presumably from 12.20-15.25 m below surface in SCGS 2-49 augur hole.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal lithified sandy claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: LITHOLOGY: Sandy biomicrudite/claystone. LITHIFICATION: Lithified.
Environment:coastal indet.
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Subtidal to inner shelf environment.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:core,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:Kite Collection dates:1983
Collection method comments: COLLECTORS: L. Kite, 1983. REPOSITORY: University of South Carolina, McKissick Museum
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Limited to Cirripedia. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature, and species resolution identifications.
Metadata
Database number:160400
Authorizer:A. Hendy, P. Holroyd Enterer:A. Hendy, P. Holroyd
Modifier:P. Holroyd Research group:marine invertebrate,vertebrate
Created:2014-08-19 23:56:30 Last modified:2019-06-17 15:20:20
Access level:the public Released:2014-08-19 23:56:30
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
52308. V. A. Zullo and L. E. Kite. 1985. Barnacles of the Jacksonian (Upper Eocene) Griffins Landing Member, Dry Branch Formation in South Carolina and Georgia. South Carolina Geology 28(1):1-21 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]

Secondary references:

69202 D. J. Cicimurri and J. L. Knight. 2019. Late Eocene (Priabonian) elasmobranchs from the Dry Branch Formation (Barnwell Group) of Aiken County, South Carolina, USA. PaleoBios 36(43964):1-31 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]