Georgia Limestone Products Co. Quarry: Priabonian, Georgia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea - Basilosauridae
Basilosauridae indet. Cope 1867
Basilosaurus cetoides (Owen 1839)
Anonymous 1952
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Georgia County:Houston
Coordinates: 32.4° North, 83.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.6° North, 75.8° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Priabonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 3
Key time interval:Priabonian
Age range of interval:37.71000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Ocala Formation:Tivola
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: Originally given as Ocala; however, Macrostrat now gives this as Tivola limestone within the Ocala Group
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Grigg's Cement Products Co., Georgia Limerock Products
Database number:132660
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:vertebrate
Created:2012-08-24 07:02:17 Last modified:2023-01-09 09:09:50
Access level:the public Released:2012-08-24 07:02:17
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
42488. M. D. Uhen. 2013. A review of North American Basilosauridae. Alabama Museum of Natural History Bulletin 31(2):1-45 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

61712 Anonymous. 1952. Basilosaurus cetoides from Crawford County, Georgia. Georgia Mineral Society Newsletter 5(2):54 [M. Uhen/B. Shipps/M. Uhen]