Also known as Wilkinson Mine, WKR Mine

Where: Wilkinson County, Georgia (32.9° N, 83.4° W: paleocoordinates 33.1° N, 75.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Clinchfield Formation (Barnwell Group), Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• from "a 1-1.5-m-high stratum" and spoil piles derived from it (Parmley and DeVore 2005)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Collection methods: bulk, salvage, surface (float), sieve,

• "Intensive surface collecting of spoil piles and screen washing of in situ sediments" (Parmley and DeVore 2005)

Primary reference: J. W. Westgate. 2001. Paleoecology and biostratigraphy of marginal marine gulf coast Eocene vertebrate localities. Eocene Biodiversity: Unusual Occurrences and Rarely Sampled Habitats 263-297 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 45640: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 20.11.2004, edited by Jason Head, John Alroy, Joseph Villari and Patricia Holroyd

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