Phinizy Gully (Eocene of the United States)

Also known as Grovetown

Where: Columbia County, Georgia (33.5° N, 82.2° W: paleocoordinates 33.6° N, 73.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: McBean Formation (Claiborne Group), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: adpression

Primary reference: E. W. Berry. 1914. The Upper Cretaceous and Eocene floras of South Carolina and Georgia. US Geological Survey Professional Paper 84:1-200 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 212697: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 18.08.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Angiospermae
 Sapindales - Sapindaceae
Sapindus georgiana n. sp., Dodonaea viscosoides
Sapindus georgiana n. sp. Berry 1914 soapnut
Dodonaea viscosoides Berry 1914 soapberry
 Malpighiales - Rhizophoraceae
Rhizophora eocenica n. sp.
Rhizophora eocenica n. sp. Berry 1914 true mangrove
 Rosales - Ulmaceae
Momisia americana n. sp.
Momisia americana n. sp. Berry 1914 elm
 Rosales - Mimosaceae
Mimosites georgianus n. sp.
Mimosites georgianus n. sp. Berry 1914
 Mesangiosperms - Araceae
Thrinax eocenica, Pistia claibornensis
Thrinax eocenica Berry 1914
Pistia claibornensis Berry 1914 water cabbage
Dicotyledoneae
 Myrtales - Combretaceae
Conocarpus eocenica
Angiospermae
 Alismatales - Potamogetonaceae
Potamogeton megaphyllus n. sp.
Potamogeton megaphyllus n. sp. Berry 1914 pondweed
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Arundo pseudogoepperti n. sp.
Arundo pseudogoepperti n. sp. Berry 1914
Acrostichum
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Acrostichum georgianum n. sp.
Acrostichum georgianum n. sp. Berry 1914