Shell Bluff: Late/Upper Eocene, Georgia
collected by H. V. Howe
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gymnolaemata
- Cheilostomata
- Romancheinidae
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Ochetosella parva
Cheetham 1962
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Perigastrella sp.
Canu and Bassler 1917
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Hippopleurifera mcbeanensis
Cheetham 1962
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Gymnolaemata
- Cheilostomata
- Lepraliellidae
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Kleidionella mcbeanensis
Cheetham 1962
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Gymnolaemata
- Cheilostomata
- Lunulitidae
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Oligotresium howei
Cheetham 1962
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Gymnolaemata
- Cheilostomata
- Hippopodinidae
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Hippopodina stephensi
Cheetham 1962
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Gymnolaemata
- Cheilostomata
- Stomachetosellidae
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Metradolium areolatum
Cheetham 1962
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Gymnolaemata
- Cheilostomata
- Smittinidae
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Smittina denticulifera
(Canu and Bassler 1920)
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Plagiosmittia porelloides
Canu and Bassler 1920
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Gymnolaemata
- Cheilostomata
- Bitectiporidae
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Hippoporina vespertilio
(Canu and Bassler 1920)
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Schizomavella porosa
(Canu and Bassler 1920)
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Gymnolaemata
- Cheilostomata
- Cheiloporinidae
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Cheiloporina anderseni n. sp.
Cheetham 1962
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Georgia | County: | Burke |
Coordinates: | 33.2° North, 81.8° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 33.3° North, 73.9° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
Stage: | Priabonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 3 |
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Eocene | Other zone: | Ostrea sellaeformis |
Age range of interval: | 37.71000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | McBean | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: fauna is on balance "Jacksonian (upper Eocene)" |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | unlithified "siliciclastic" |
Secondary lithology: | lithified "limestone" |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: unit consists of "soft marine sands, clays, and marls [presumably yielding the fossils] with discontinuous beds of hard limestone" | |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Collectors: | H. V. Howe |
Collection method comments: LSU collection | |
Taxonomic list comments:numerous molluscs are present and described in earlier publications |
Metadata
Also known as: | Locality 2 | ||
Database number: | 90480 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2009-08-01 16:29:46 | Last modified: | 2009-08-01 19:29:46 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2009-08-01 16:29:46 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
30439. | A. H. Cheetham. 1962. Eocene bryozoa from the McBean Formation in Georgia. Micropaleontology 8(3):323-336 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |