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

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• replicates are all from the fossiliferous layer 7 ft above water level, about 1m apart.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; unlithified, glauconitic, muddy sandstone

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

• Gastropod shells were only counted if they contained the apex of the shell; bivalves shells were only counted if they contained the umbo.

Primary reference: J. A. Sessa, M. E. Patzkowsky, and T. J. Bralower. 2009. Impact of lithification on the diversity, size distribution, and recovery dynamics of marine invertebrate assemblages. Geology 37(2):115-118 [M. Patzkowsky/J. Sessa/J. Sessa]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 86179: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 26.01.2009

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