Coffeeville Landing, north (Eocene of the United States)

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

• glauconitic sandy 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

• includes all countable macrofossils
Mammalia
 Cetacea - Protocetidae
Protocetidae indet. Stromer 1908 whale
Georgiacetus vogtlensis Hulbert et al. 1998 whale