USGS Loc. 4033 - Parke's farm, Ellaville [Clayton Fm] (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Schley County, Georgia (32.2° N, 84.3° W: paleocoordinates 34.6° N, 64.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Clayton Formation (Midway Group), Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Clayton Formation of the lower Midway Group. AGE: Paleocene in text, but placed in Danian following other collections in local vicinity. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown position in local section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by McCalle; reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: S.W. McCalle. REPOSITORY: USNM.

Primary reference: C. W. Cooke. 1959. Cenozoic echinoids of eastern United States. United States Geological Survey Professional Papers 321:1-106 [L. Villier/L. Villier/M. Hopkins]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 155911: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 04.05.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Limited to echinoderms, but presumably molluscs are also present. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, although with somewhat antiquated nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications.
Echinoidea
 Cassiduloida - Cassidulidae
Echanthus georgiensis n. sp. Clark and Twitchell 1915 sea urchin
 Spatangoida - Schizasteridae
Linthia prima n. sp. Cooke 1942 heart urchin