Melvin-Gilbertown Road, (Unit 2, Red Bluff Clay) - Toulmin et al (1951) (Oligocene of the United States)

Also known as Unit 2, Red Bluff Clay, Melvin-Gilbertown Road

Where: Choctaw County, Alabama (31.9° N, 88.5° W: paleocoordinates 32.2° N, 82.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Red Bluff Clay Formation, Early/Lower Oligocene (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)

• Unit of limestone 1.5 ft thick, underlying 57 ft of Red Bluff Fm unit 3 clay, and overlying 6 ft of Yazoo Clay (Shubuta Member). Choctaw regional section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, glauconitic limestone

• No paleoenvironmental information reported.
• Limestone, glauconitic, indurated, forming massive boulders.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Unknown repository. Page 133.

Primary reference: L.D. Toulmin, P.E. La Moreaux, and C.R. Lanphere. 1951. Geology and ground-water resources of Choctaw County, Alabama. Geological Survey of Alabama Special Report 21 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 42157: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 24.07.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Probably not complete. Only mollusca.
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Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea sp.
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Pecten sp.
Pecten sp. Müller 1776 scallop