Where: New Madrid County, Missouri (36.4° N, 89.6° W: paleocoordinates 37.7° N, 77.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Cook Mountain Formation, Eocene (56.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• The sidewall core seems clearly to be from the upper part of the middle Eocene because Celtis and Gothanipollis are fairly abundant in this sample.

Environment/lithology: marine; argillaceous, sandy siltstone

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 231934: authorized by Phillip Jardine, entered by Hannah Morck on 04.10.2023

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