Also known as USGS Coll. 28486-PC
Where: Franklin County, Alabama (34.5° N, 87.8° W: paleocoordinates 12.6° S, 28.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Sandia welleri and Plicochonetes arkansanus Brachiopod Zones zone, Parkwood Formation, Morrowan (318.1 - 314.6 Ma)
• Upper Mississippian.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified, bioturbated, calcareous sandstone
Reposited in the USGS
• This is USGS coll. 28486-PC.
Primary reference: T. H. Henry, M., J.r. Gordon, S. P. Schweinfurth and W. H. Gillespie. 1985. Significance of the Goniatite Bilingulites eliasi and associated biotas, Parkwood Formation and Bangor Limestone, Northeastern Alabama. Journal of Paleontolgy 59(5):1138-1145 [A. Miller/A. Webber/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 2854: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Andrew Webber on 21.07.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Trilobita | |
Paladin sp. Weller 1936 trilobite | |
Lingulata | |
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Strophomenata | |
Derbyia sp. Waagen 1884 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Bivalvia | |
Nuculopsis sp. Girty 1912 nut clam | |
Aviculopecten sp. M'Coy 1851 scallop | |
Pseudomonotis sp. von Beyrich 1862 scallop | |
Septimyalina sp. Newell 1942 clam | |
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Schizodus sp. King 1844 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Straparollus sp. de Montfort 1810 snail | |
Ianthinopsis sp. Meek and Worthen 1866 snail |