Where: Stewart County, Georgia (32.1° N, 85.0° W: paleocoordinates 34.0° N, 56.6° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Blufftown Formation, Late/Upper Santonian to Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 70.6 Ma)
• Unit 3 of the upper Blufftown Formation
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; poorly lithified, fine-grained, micaceous, silty, calcareous sandstone
Size class: mesofossils
Primary reference: G. R. Case. 1987. Borodinopristis schwimmeri, a new Ganopristine Sawfish from the upper Blufftown Formation (Campanian) of the Upper Cretaceous of Georgia. Bulletin of the New Jersey Academy of Science 32(1):25-33 [J. Kriwet/W. Glaeser/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 215806: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.11.2020
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
Odontaspis sp. Agassiz 1838 sand tiger shark | |
Borodinopristis schwimmeri n. gen. n. sp.
Borodinopristis schwimmeri n. gen. n. sp. Case 1987 ray | |
Ptychotrygon sp. Jaekel 1894 ray | |
Lissodus (Lonchidion) sp. Brough 1935 elasmobranch |