Melvin (Oligocene of the United States)
Where: Choctaw County, Alabama (31.9° N, 88.5° W: paleocoordinates 32.2° N, 82.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Red Bluff Formation (Vicksburg Group), Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: E. Monsour. 1944. Fossil corals of the genus Turbinolia from the Golf Coast. Journal of Paleontology 18(2):109-118 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 87179: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 09.03.2009
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Anthozoa | |
Turbinolia vicksburgensis Monsour 1944 stony coral |