Paper No. 38-0
A PALEOBOTANICAL INVESTIGATION OF A FOSSILIFEROUS TERTIARY DEPOSIT NEAR GRANADA , MISSISSIPPI
MOORE, Roger, Department of Geology, Geography and Physics, Universithy of Tennessee Martin, Martin, TN 38238, brmoore@click1.net, DILCHER, David L., Florida Museum of Natural History, Univ of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-7800, and DOCKERY, David T. III, Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality, P.O. Box 20307, Jackson, MS 39289-1307

A new collection of Paleogene plants was made near Granada, Mississippi. As far as we know the last published record of this flora is by E.W.Berry, 1916. He published a record of 62 species identified from this area. We can identify about 27 species in a collection of 46 fossils. These include monocot leaves, dicot leaves, a fruit, gymnosperm seed, insect wing and a fish scale. The fossils are preserved in laminated micaceous mudstone as compressions and impressions. Much of the plant material is fragmentary suggesting some degree of transport. The flora appears to consist of plants that are absent or rare in the Tennessee, Kentucky and Mississippi Claiborne (middle Eocene) Formation.

North-Central Section (36th) and Southeastern Section (51st), GSA Joint Annual Meeting (April 3–5, 2002)
Session No. 38
Paleobotany
Hyatt Regency Hotel: Regency Ballroom West
8:20 AM-11:00 AM, Friday, April 5, 2002
 

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