Factory Creek, Sample R1209 (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Early County, Georgia (31.4° N, 85.0° W: paleocoordinates 32.3° N, 73.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Bashi Marl Member (Hatchetigbee Formation), Eocene (56.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• Upper Sabinian: lower Eocene.

Environment/lithology: marine; medium-grained, coarse, glauconitic, gray, green sandstone

• Greenish-gray medium- to coarse-grained fossiliferous glauconitc sand.

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: original sporopollenin

Collection methods: bulk, chemical, hydrochloric, hydroflouric

Primary reference: N. O. Frederiksen. 1979. Paleogene Sporomorph Biostratigraphy, Northeastern Virginia. Palynology 3:129-167 [P. Jardine/H. Morck]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 233004: authorized by Phillip Jardine, entered by Hannah Morck on 10.01.2024

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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"Momipites-Plicatopollis-Platycaryapollenites complex" spp., Nudopollis terminalis
Verrutricolporites
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Verrutricolporites spp.
Verrutricolporites spp. Van der Hammen and Wijmstra 1964
Angiospermae
 Fagales - Juglandaceae
Platycarya platycaryoides, Momipites "tenuipolus group", Momipites microfoveolatus, Platycaryapollenites swasticoidus
 Fagales - Casuarinaceae
Casuarinidites spp.
Casuarinidites spp. Cookson and Pike 1954
 Poales - Restionaceae
Milfordia incerta, Milfordia minima
 Gunnerales -
Tricolpites asper
Tricolpites asper Frederiksen 1978
 Santalales -
Anacolosidites reklawensis
 Aquifoliales - Aquifoliaceae
Ilexpollenites spp.
Ilexpollenites spp. Thiergart 1937
Plicatopollis
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Plicatopollis "lunata type"