Where: New Madrid County, Missouri (36.4° N, 89.6° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 40.8° N, 50.0° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate estimated from map
• hand sample-level geographic resolution
When: McNairy Formation, Late/Upper Cretaceous (100.5 - 66.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; glauconitic, micaceous, pyritic, argillaceous sandstone
Size class: microfossils
Preservation: original sporopollenin
Reposited in the USGS
Collection methods: core, chemical, hydrochloric, hydroflouric,
Primary reference: N. O. Frederiksen, L. M. Bybell, R. A. Christopher, A. J. Crone, L. E. Edwards, T. G. Gibson, J. E. Hazel, J. E. Repetski, D. P. Russ, C. C. Smith, and L.W. Ward. 1982. Biostratigraphy and paleoecology of lower Paleozoic, upper Cretaceous, and lower Tertiary rocks in U.S. Geological Survey New Madrid test wells, Southeastern Missouri. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 17(2):23-45 [P. Jardine/H. Morck]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 232059: authorized by Phillip Jardine, entered by Hannah Morck on 16.10.2023
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Angiospermae | |
Casuarinidites "sp. A" Cookson and Pike 1954 | |
aff. Plicapollis "sp. A" Pflug 1953
Plicapollis usitatus Tschudy 1975 | |
Retitricolpites | |
"Retitricolpites" "sp. D" Van der Hammen 1956 | |
Holkopollenites | |
Holkopollenites "sp. C" Stover 1966 | |
Holkopollenites chemardensis | |
Holkopollenites cf. chemardensis Stover et al. 1966 | |
Plicatopollis | |
Plicatopollis cretacea Frederiksen and Christopher 1978 |