PRI 2755 (Eocene of the United States)

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

• Environment from PBDB col 90038
• unlithified glaucontic calcareous clayey sand-Lithology from PBDB col 90038

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
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Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Mathildidae
Gegania sp. Jeffreys 1884 snail
 Heterostropha - Pyramidellidae
"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
 Heterostropha - Acteonidae
Tornatellaea bella Conrad 1860 snail
 Heterostropha - Ringiculidae
 Trochoidea - Solariellidae
Solariella sp. Wood 1842 snail
 Ptenoglossa - Vasidae
 Opisthobranchia -
 Opisthobranchia - Retusidae
 Opisthobranchia - Cylichnidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Hipponicidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
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
 Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
 Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
? Dolicholatirus interstriatus snail
Dolicholatirus? interstriatus subsp.
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Euthria dubia true whelk
"Pseudoliva scalina" = Popenoeum scalina Heilprin 1881 true whelk
Terebrifusus "n. sp. A" Conrad 1865 true whelk
Penion gracilis true whelk
 Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
Levifusus "sp. F" Conrad 1865 snail
Levifusus "sp. J" Conrad 1865 snail
? Levifusus pagodiformis Heilprin 1881 snail
Cornulina "sp. ?" Conrad 1853 snail
Cornulina minax1 Solander 1766 snail
Cornulina minax compressa
 Neogastropoda - Raphitomidae
 Neogastropoda - Turridae
""Pleurotoma" moniliata" = Turris turrid
""Pleurotoma" sigma" = Turris turrid
""Pleurotoma" "sp. A"" = Turris Röding 1798 turrid
Coronia childreni Lea 1833 turrid
Coronia childreni var.
 Neogastropoda - Borsoniidae
Microdrillia infans snail
Microdrillia infans ? "var."
Microdrillia "sp. B" Casey 1903 snail
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Poirieria (Paziella) harrisi Vokes 1970 murex snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Cymatiidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Ficidae
 Vanikoroidea - Eulimidae
Niso "sp. A" Risso 1826 snail
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Ungulinidae
Diplodonta sp.2 Bronn 1831 clam