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 | |
Aturia alabamensis Morton 1834 nautiloid |