Where: Houston County, Georgia (32.4° N, 83.6° W: paleocoordinates 33.8° N, 69.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Nanjemoy Formation (Wilcox Group), Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: Collected by G.D. Harris, J. Hauch and K.V.W. Palmer, September 30, 1946. Field Station NO. 18. Same quarry as Station No. 14 and 17. See notes on station 14.

Primary reference: K. V. Palmer and D. C. Brann. 1965. Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Peteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda. Bulletins of American Paleontology 48:1-471 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 98655: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Ursula Smith on 15.10.2010

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