Where: Monroe County, Alabama (31.8° N, 87.4° W: paleocoordinates 34.3° N, 70.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bells Landing Marl Member (Tuscahoma Formation), Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)

• The Bells Landing Marl Member is exposed near the top of the steep bluff 27 feet higher than the top of the Greggs Landing Marl Member and contains the characteristic large spheroidal concretions and large Ostrea sinosa, Venericardia aposmithii and Turritella postmortoni are mixed with Greggs Landing fossils at this location.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; unlithified, glauconitic sandstone

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: L. D. Toulmin. 1977. Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region. Geological Survey of Alabama, Monograph 13(1):1-602 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 80673: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 03.05.2008

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