PRI 2194 (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Barbour County, Alabama (31.9° N, 85.4° W: paleocoordinates 34.5° N, 65.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Clayton Formation (Midway Group), Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• Environment from PBDB col 86391.
• Lithology from PBDB col 86391.

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: K. V. Palmer and D. C. Brann. 1965. Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Peteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda. Bulletins of American Paleontology 48:1-471 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 90612: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 11.08.2009, edited by Jocelyn Sessa

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Diastomatidae
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
Rhinoclavis mediavia, "cf. Clavocerithium globoleve" = Clava (Clavocerithium)
"cf. Clavocerithium globoleve" = Clava (Clavocerithium) cerith snail
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
 Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Calyptraea "sp. A." Lamarck 1799 slipper shell
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Pseudoliva "sp. A" Swainson 1840 true whelk
Pseudoliva "sp. F" Swainson 1840 true whelk
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Malleidae
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
 Cardiida - Veneridae
"Meretrix" "sp." Lamarck 1799 venus clam
 Carditida - Crassatellidae