USGS Loc. 10050 - Gainestown [Chickasawhay Lmst]
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Found Here
Geologic setting
- Formation
- Chickasawhay
- Geologic interval
- Late Oligocene
- Age
- 27.3–23.04 Ma
- Depositional environment
- marine indet.
- Recorded occurrences
- 5
SPECIFIC LOCALITY: Road to Lambards Landing, 1.7 mi. SE of Gainestown, Clarke Co., Alabama. LAT/LONG: estimate based on Gainestown, Alabama.
Fossils found here
Records and references
Data: Paleobiology Database collection 155957 (CC BY 4.0) — view the source record
Difficulty
Getting there
Location on Map
Coordinates: 31.44556, -87.69334
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