USGS test well 5, locality 34H337 (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Glynn County, Georgia (31.1° N, 81.5° W: paleocoordinates 31.7° N, 70.3° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Lake City Formation, Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)

• said to be equivalent to the Lower Lisbon Fm., which is Lutetian

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: P. M. Kier. 1968. Echinoids from the Middle Eocene Lake City Formation of Georgia. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 153(2):1-45 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 203603: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 20.08.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Clypeasteroida - Protoscutellidae
Periarchus sp. Conrad 1866 sand dollar
 Clypeasteroida - Fibulariidae
Leniechinus herricki n. gen. n. sp. Kier 1968 sand dollar
Echinocyamus bisexus n. sp. Kier 1968 sand dollar
Fibularia alabamensis Cooke 1959 sand dollar
 Clypeasteroida -
Pentedium curator Kier 1967 sand dollar
 Clypeasteroida - Neolaganidae
Durhamella ocalana n. gen. Cooke 1942 sand dollar