Hannahatchee Creek, unit 3: Late/Upper Santonian - Middle Campanian, Georgia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes - Sclerorhynchidae
Borodinopristis schwimmeri n. gen., n. sp. Case 1987
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes - Ptychotrygonidae
Ptychotrygon sp. Jaekel 1894
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Odontaspididae
Odontaspis sp. Agassiz 1838
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes
Lissodus (Lonchidion) sp. Brough 1935
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Georgia County:Stewart
Coordinates: 32.1° North, 85.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.0° North, 56.6° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Key time interval:Late/Upper Santonian - Middle Campanian
Age range of interval:86.30000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Blufftown
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Unit 3 of the upper Blufftown Formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:fine,micaceous poorly lithified silty,calcareous sandstone
Lithology description: Fine, micaceous, calcareous, silty sands, bedded in graded storm deposits.
Environment:estuary/bay
Geology comments: Back-barrier marginal marine environments
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:215806
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:vertebrate
Created:2020-11-23 21:42:10 Last modified:2021-02-19 07:53:52
Access level:the public Released:2020-11-23 21:42:10
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
23702. 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]