Where: Effingham County, Georgia (32.6° N, 81.4° W: paleocoordinates 32.9° N, 77.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Marks Head Formation (Hawthorne Group), Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• late early Miocene

Environment/lithology: coastal; pebbly, argillaceous sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

Primary reference: A. E. Pratt and R. M. Petkewich. 1989. Fossil vertebrates from the Marks Head Formation (Early Miocene) of Southeastern Georgia. Georgia Journal of Science 47(1):20-20 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 55530: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 31.10.2005

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