Where: Worth County, Georgia (31.6° N, 83.4° W: paleocoordinates 31.6° N, 77.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Suwannee Limestone Formation (Vicksburg Group), Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)
• Cunningham et al. (1998) identified Suwannee LS as Early Oligocene age. Cooke and Mansfield (1936) assigned Suwannee to Vicksburg group. Suwannee assigned to Rupelian Stage (early Oligocene) by Brewster-Wingard et al. (1987) and COSUNA (1988).
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, white limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Cooke; reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: C.W. Cooke. 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 155942: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 04.05.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Clypeaster cotteaui Egozcue 1897 sand dollar |