Near Suggsville, road between Suggsville and Gosport (Eocene to of the United States)

Where: Clarke County, Alabama (31.6° N, 87.7° W: paleocoordinates 32.1° N, 79.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Jackson Group, Bartonian to Bartonian (41.3 - 33.9 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by E.A. Smith in 1900

• Repository: Alabama Museum of Natural History

Primary reference: H. G. Schenck. 1931. Cephalopods of the genus Aturia from western North America. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences 19:435-490 [M. Clapham/K. Okamoto/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 180302: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 12.07.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Aturiidae
Aturia alabamensis Morton 1834 nautiloid