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Microfossil data for the Coon Creek type locality, Tennessee

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2007-12-31
End Date
2023-12-31

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Self-Trail, J.M., Gardner, K.F., O'Keefe, J., Mason, P.A., Puckett, M., and McCarty, M.M, 2023, Microfossil data for the Coon Creek type locality, Tennessee: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9BTAOJJ.

Summary

The Upper Cretaceous Coon Creek Formation type locality in McNairy County, Tennessee, has long been known to be an exceptional marine invertebrate lagerstattäte that was deposited in a nearshore reentrant into the ancestral continent of Appalachia. Extensive taxonomic analysis of the macrofauna over the past 100 years includes documentation of swimming reptiles, fish, marine invertebrates, and plant material. However, documentation of the palynomorph and calcareous microfossil component at the type locality has never been done. This data set provides analysis of calcareous microfossils (benthic and planktic foraminifera, calcareous nannofossils, and ostracods) and palynomorphs (pollen, spores, algal remains, and dinoflagellates) as [...]

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Benthic Foram Counts Final.xlsx 14.01 KB application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet
Calcareous Nannofossil Counts Final.xlsx 19.61 KB application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet
Dinoflagellate Counts Final.xlsx 15.35 KB application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet
Calcareous Nannofossil Occurrence Final.xlsx 21.12 KB application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet
Ostracod Presence Absence Final.xlsx 11.27 KB application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet
Palynomorph Presence Absence Final.xlsx 18.38 KB application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet
Planktic Foraminifera Counts Final.xlsx 11.2 KB application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet
Species Richness Final.xlsx 10.16 KB application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet
Coon Creek Data Dictionary Final.docx 15.71 KB application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document

Purpose

These data were collected to provide microfossil age control for the Coon Creek type locality in McNairy County, Tennessee. These data can be used for paleoecological, paleoenvironmental, and biostratigraphic purposes.

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