Where: Stewart County, Georgia (32.1° N, 85.0° W: paleocoordinates 34.0° N, 56.6° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Cusseta Formation, Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)
• Initially assigned to the Blufftown Formation, but Schwimmer later placed the base of the Cusseta Formation at the base of bed 4. This unit contains a mixture of reworked Blufftown fossils and those from the Cusseta.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; poorly lithified, argillaceous, silty sandstone
Size class: mesofossils
Collection methods: Repository: Columbus College (planned for transfer to future Georgia State Museum)
Primary reference: G. R. Case and D. R. Schwimmer. 1988. Late Cretaceous fish from the Blufftown Formation (Campanian) in western Georgia. Journal of Paleontology 62(2):290-301 [J. Kriwet/W. Glaeser/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 70720: authorized by Juergen Kriwet, entered by Wolfgang Glaeser on 03.04.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri | |
Paralbula casei Estes 1969 | |
Albula sp. Gronow 1763 bonefish | |
Enchodus petrosus Cope 1874 | |
? Stephanodus sp. Zittel 1883 | |
Xiphactinus audax Leidy 1870 | |
Amiidae indet. Huxley 1861 bowfin | |
Lepisosteus sp. Agassiz 1843 gar | |
Anomoeodus phaseolus Hay 1899 | |
Chondrichthyes | |
"Rhombodus laevis" = Rhombodus levis
"Rhombodus laevis" = Rhombodus levis Cappetta and Case 1975 stingray | |
Brachyrhizodus wichitaensis Romer 1942 eagle ray | |
Ischyrhiza mira Leidy 1856 ray | |
Ptychotrygon vermiculata Cappetta 1975 ray | |
Pseudohypolophus sp. Cappetta and Case 1975 guitarfish | |
"Ginglymostoma globidens" = Plicatoscyllium globidens
"Ginglymostoma globidens" = Plicatoscyllium globidens Cappetta and Case 1975 nurse shark | |
Pseudocorax granti Cappetta and Case 1975 mackerel shark | |
Scapanorhynchus texanus Roemer 1852 goblin shark | |
"Cretolamna appendiculata" = Cretalamna appendiculata
"Cretolamna appendiculata" = Cretalamna appendiculata Agassiz 1835 mackerel shark | |
Squalicorax kaupi Agassiz 1843 crow shark | |
"Synodontaspis holmdelensis" = Carcharias holmdelensis
"Synodontaspis holmdelensis" = Carcharias holmdelensis Cappetta and Case 1975 sand shark | |
"Cretodus borodini" = Protolamna borodini
"Cretodus borodini" = Protolamna borodini Cappetta and Case 1975 mackerel shark | |
Squatina sp. Dumeril 1806 angel shark | |
"Lissodus babulskii" = Lonchidion babulskii
"Lissodus babulskii" = Lonchidion babulskii Cappetta and Case 1975 elasmobranch | |
Hybodus "sp. 1" Agassiz 1834 elasmobranch |