Where: Clarke County, Alabama (31.8° N, 88.1° W: paleocoordinates 33.0° N, 76.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Member (Lisbon Formation), Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)
• upper Lisbon
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; unlithified, glauconitic marl
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Collection methods: bulk, mechanical, sieve,
Primary reference: M. D. Uhen. 2008. New protocetid whales from Alabama and Mississippi, and a new cetacean clade, Pelagiceti. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28(3):589-593 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 83980: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 12.09.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Protocetidae indet. Stromer 1908 whale
Georgiacetus vogtlensis Hulbert et al. 1998 whale |