Also known as Ft. Gaines NE 115 ft; USGS # 32255
Where: Clay County, Georgia (31.7° N, 85.1° W: paleocoordinates 34.6° N, 63.3° W)
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Contusotruncana contusa foram zone, Providence Formation, Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• Foraminiferal zonation from King and Skotnicki, 1992.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; gray, silty, carbonaceous claystone
Size class: mesofossils
Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite
Reposited in the USGS
Collection methods: core
• Subsurface data 1981-83
Primary reference: N. F. Sohl and C. F. Koch. 1987. Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) larger invertebrates from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the Atlantic Coastal Plain with further data for the East Gulf. USGS Open File Report 87-194:1-172 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 4314: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 14.08.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Ataphrus sp. n. sp.
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Turritella sp. n. sp., "Turritella (Sohlitella) bilira" = Haustator bilira
Turritella sp. n. sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell Turritella n. sp. (Multilirate) - originally entered as "Turritella n. sp."
"Turritella (Sohlitella) bilira" = Haustator bilira Stephenson 1941 turret shell Turritella (Sohlitella) bilira (St
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Rissoa sp. n. sp.
Rissoa sp. n. sp. Fréminville 1814 snail Rissoa n. sp. (lirate) - originally entered as "Rissoa n. sp."
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Nozeba sp. n. sp.
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"Zikkuratia tabannensis" = Zikkuratia tabanneensis
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Creonella cf. subangulata Sohl 1964 snail Creonella cf. C. subangulata Sohl - originally entered as "Creonella cf. subangulata"
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Mathilda aff. ripleyana Wade 1926 snail Mathilda aff. M. ripleyana Wade - originally entered as "Mathilda aff. ripleyana"
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Syncyclonema simplicius scallop Syncylonema simplicus (Conrad) - originally entered as "Syncylonema simplicius"
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"Nymphalucina ? linearea" = Nymphalucina linearia, Myrtea stephensoni
"Nymphalucina ? linearea" = Nymphalucina linearia Stephenson 1941 clam Nymphalucina ? linearea (Stephenso - originally entered as "Nymphalucina ? linearea"
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Caestocorbula (Parmicorbula) suffalciata clam Caesticorbula (Parmicorbula) suffa - originally entered as "Caesticorbula suffalciata"
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Cymbophora berryi, Cymbophora sp. n. sp.
Cymbophora sp. n. sp. Gabb 1869 clam Cymbophora n. sp. (fine concentric - originally entered as "Cymbophora n. sp."
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"Uddenia texana" = Cuna texana
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Scaphopoda | |
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Polychaeta | |
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unclassified | |
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