Where: Wilcox County, Alabama (31.9° N, 88.0° W: paleocoordinates 34.4° N, 70.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• None.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; unlithified, glauconitic, gray, green, calcareous 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 80763: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 06.05.2008

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