Where: Clarke County, Alabama (31.9° N, 88.1° W: paleocoordinates 34.0° N, 73.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Bashi Member (Hatchetigbee Bluff Formation), Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; unlithified, glauconitic, argillaceous, calcareous sandstone
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 98277: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 29.09.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Gastropoda | |
"Turbonilla (Ptycheulimella) sabina" = Ptycheulimella, "Turbonilla (Strioturbonilla) harrisi" = Strioturbonilla, Pyramidella sp., Pyramidella (Iphiana) anita
"Turbonilla (Ptycheulimella) sabina" = Ptycheulimella snail
"Turbonilla (Strioturbonilla) harrisi" = Strioturbonilla snail
Pyramidella sp. Lamarck 1799 snail | |
Tornatellaea bella Conrad 1860 snail | |
Ringicula butleriana snail | |
Solariella sp. Wood 1842 snail
Solariella sylvaerupis snail | |
Sceptrum perulum snail
Sceptrum "sp. B" snail | |
Eosinica elevata snail | |
Scaphander ligniticus snail | |
Hipponix sylvaerupis hoof shell | |
Sigatica clarkeana, "Euspira sabina" = Natica semilunata sabina, "Natica" gilberti, Sinum fiski, Sinum "sp. A"
Sigatica clarkeana Aldrich 1887 moon snail
"Euspira sabina" = Natica semilunata sabina Palmer 1937 moon snail
"Natica" gilberti moon snail
Sinum fiski moon snail
Sinum "sp. A" Röding 1798 moon snail | |
Mitrella erecta snail | |
Falsifusus ottonis snail | |
Euthria dubia, "Pseudoliva scalina" = Popenoeum scalina, Terebrifusus "n. sp. A", Penion gracilis, Penion imbricatulus
Euthria dubia true whelk
"Pseudoliva scalina" = Popenoeum scalina Heilprin 1881 true whelk
Terebrifusus "n. sp. A" Conrad 1865 true whelk
Penion gracilis true whelk
Penion imbricatulus true whelk | |
Levifusus prepagoda, Levifusus "sp. F", Levifusus "sp. J", ? Levifusus pagodiformis, Cornulina "sp. ?", Cornulina minax1
Levifusus prepagoda snail
Levifusus "sp. F" Conrad 1865 snail
Levifusus "sp. J" Conrad 1865 snail
? Levifusus pagodiformis Heilprin 1881 snail
Cornulina "sp. ?" Conrad 1853 snail | |
""Pleurotoma" moniliata" = Turris, ""Pleurotoma" sigma" = Turris, ""Pleurotoma" "sp. A"" = Turris, ? Surculoma nebulosa, ? Surculoma servatoidea, Sullivania exilloides, Coronia childreni, Surculites engonatus, Eopleurotoma cainei, Eopleurotoma veatchi, Trypanotoma carlottae, Trypanotoma "sp. A", Eosurcula tuomeyi
""Pleurotoma" moniliata" = Turris turrid
""Pleurotoma" sigma" = Turris turrid
""Pleurotoma" "sp. A"" = Turris Röding 1798 turrid
? Surculoma nebulosa turrid
? Surculoma servatoidea turrid
Sullivania exilloides turrid
Surculites engonatus turrid
Eopleurotoma cainei turrid
Eopleurotoma veatchi turrid
Trypanotoma carlottae turrid
Trypanotoma "sp. A" turrid
Eosurcula tuomeyi turrid | |
Microdrillia "sp. B" Casey 1903 snail | |
Poirieria (Paziella) harrisi Vokes 1970 murex snail | |
Ranella tuomeyi snail | |
Priscoficus (Fulguroficus) juvenis fig shell | |
Niso "sp. A" Risso 1826 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
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