Red Bluff: Late/Upper Eocene, Georgia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea - Clypeasteroida - Clypeasteridae
Clypeaster sp. Lamarck 1801
Echinoidea - Echinolampadoida - Echinolampadidae
Echinolampas sp. Gray 1825
Echinoidea - Cassiduloida - Cassidulidae
Cassidulus sp. Lamarck 1801
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Amusium ocalanum
Pecten suwaneensis Dall 1898
recombined as Aequipecten suwaneensis
Pecten indecisus Dall 1898
recombined as Chlamys indecisa
Nummulitidae
Nummulites wilcoxi
Orbitoididae
Orbitoides papyracea
Orbitoides sp.
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Georgia County:Decatur
Coordinates: 31.0° North, 84.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:31.2° North, 77.0° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
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:Ocala
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:57926
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-01-10 13:10:59 Last modified:2019-09-19 21:20:53
Access level:the public Released:2006-01-10 13:10:59
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
15585. C. W. Cooke. 1915. The Age of the Ocala Limestone. US Geological Survey Professional Paper 95(I):107-117 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]