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

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