Where: Choctaw County, Alabama (31.8° N, 88.5° W: paleocoordinates 32.3° N, 80.6° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Cocoa Sand Formation, Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Cocoa Sand, for which stratigraphic relationships are not discussed. AGE: Presumably late Eocene (Jacksonian), although not discussed. Other collections are assigned to the Priabonian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From basal Cocoa Sand.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by Russell in 1970-1971
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),
• COLLECTORS: E. Russell, 1970-71. REPOSITORY: Mississippi State University, Seiler Museum (MSU).
Primary reference: V. A. Zullo and L. E. Kite. 1985. Barnacles of the Jacksonian (Upper Eocene) Griffins Landing Member, Dry Branch Formation in South Carolina and Georgia. South Carolina Geology 28(1):1-21 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 160401: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 20.08.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Thecostraca | |
Aporolepas howei Cheetham 1963 barnacle |