Upatoi Creek, USGS 5373, 5377: Santonian, Georgia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Chondrichthyes
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Chondrichthyes indet.
Huxley 1880
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| several species of shark teeth | ||||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Pseudoscapanorhynchidae
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Cretodus semiplicatus
(Agassiz 1843)
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Schwimmer et al. 2002 | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Glycymerididae
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Trigonarca sp.
Conrad 1862
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Ostreidae
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Ostrea cretacea
Morton 1834
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| recombined as Flemingostrea cretacea | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Gryphaeidae
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Exogyra upatoiensis
Stephenson 1914
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Bakevelliidae
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Pseudoptera securiformis
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Cardiidae
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Cardium sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Tellinidae
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? Tellina sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Veneridae
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Legumen aff. carolinensis
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| "carolinense" | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Pholadomyida
- Pholadomyidae
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Pholadomya sp.
Sowerby 1823
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Placenticeratidae
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Placenticeras benningi
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Gastropoda
- Turritellidae
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Turritella sp.
Lamarck 1799
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Volutidae
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Volutomorpha sp.
Gabb 1877
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Gastropoda
- Aporrhaidae
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Anchura sp.
Conrad 1860
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| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Georgia | County: | Chattahoochee |
| Coordinates: | 32.5° North, 85.0° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 32.4° North, 54.1° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Santonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 6 |
| *Period: | Late/Upper Cretaceous | ||
| Key time interval: | Santonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 86.30000 - 83.60000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Eutaw | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: From basal 25' of Eutaw Fm. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | concretionary unlithified calcareous,carbonaceous claystone |
| Secondary lithology: | "limestone" |
| Lithology description: clay, with irregular dark clay foliations, and lignite fragments; includes discontinuous nodular limestone layers and irregularly distributed calcareous concretions; fossiliferous. | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | USGS |
| Taxonomic list comments:Several species of shark teeth are present but not identified. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 5159 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy, M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Sommers, M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | C. Visaggi | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 1999-09-01 10:59:39 | Last modified: | 2004-03-11 16:25:08 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2000-11-20 13:53:25 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 311. | L. W. Stephenson. 1956. Fossils from the Eutaw Formation, Chattahoochee River region, Alabama-Georgia. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 274-J:227-250 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers] |
Secondary references:
| 28024 | D. R. Schwimmer, G. E. Hooks, and B. Johnson. 2002. Revised taxonomy, age, and geographic range of the large lamniform shark Cretodus semplicatus. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22(3):704-707 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/P. Wagner] |