M 426 (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Monroe County, Alabama (31.6° N, 87.6° W: paleocoordinates 32.2° N, 78.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cook Mountain Formation (Claiborne Group), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

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 98359: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 04.10.2010

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Borsoniidae
"Cordiera biconica" = Cordieria
"Cordiera biconica" = Cordieria snail
 Trochoidea - Solariellidae
Bivalvia
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
"Ostrea sellaeformis" = Cubitostrea sellaeformis
"Ostrea sellaeformis" = Cubitostrea sellaeformis Conrad 1832 oyster