Where: Choctaw County, Alabama (32.1° N, 88.2° W: paleocoordinates 34.1° N, 73.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bashi Member (Hatchetigbee Bluff Formation), Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 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 80765: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 06.05.2008, edited by Patricia Holroyd

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