Where: New Madrid County, Missouri (36.4° N, 89.6° W: paleocoordinates 39.5° N, 69.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• hand sample-level geographic resolution
When: Flour Island Formation, Paleocene (66.0 - 56.0 Ma)
• The top of the Paleocene is probably at about 1105 ft.
•This sample is Paleocene but probably includes cavings from the lower Eocene.
Environment/lithology: marine; fine, micaceous, pyritic, gray, yellow, silty, sandy claystone
Size class: microfossils
Preservation: original sporopollenin
Reposited in the USGS
Collection methods: core, chemical, hydrochloric, hydroflouric,
Primary reference: N. O. Frederiksen, L. M. Bybell, R. A. Christopher, A. J. Crone, L. E. Edwards, T. G. Gibson, J. E. Hazel, J. E. Repetski, D. P. Russ, C. C. Smith, and L.W. Ward. 1982. Biostratigraphy and paleoecology of lower Paleozoic, upper Cretaceous, and lower Tertiary rocks in U.S. Geological Survey New Madrid test wells, Southeastern Missouri. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 17(2):23-45 [P. Jardine/H. Morck]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 231938: authorized by Phillip Jardine, entered by Hannah Morck on 06.10.2023
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Retitrescolpites | |
Angiospermae | |
Momipites "tenuipolus group" Wodehouse 1933 | |
Tricolpites sp. Couper 1953 | |
Magnoliopsida | |