Where: Clay County, Georgia (31.6° N, 85.0° W: paleocoordinates 33.9° N, 67.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Naheola Formation (Midway Group), Selandian (61.6 - 59.2 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: mesofossils
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 92371: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 09.11.2009, edited by Ursula Smith
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
cf. Modiolus subpontis mussel
Lithophaga gainesensis mussel | |
Chama gainesensis jewel box | |
Gastrochaena "sp. B" Spengler 1783 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Cypraea "sp. E" Linnaeus 1758 cowry |