Where: Wilcox County, Alabama (31.9° N, 87.5° W: paleocoordinates 34.4° N, 70.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Bells Landing Marl Member (Tuscahoma Formation), Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; unlithified, glauconitic, argillaceous 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 98377: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 05.10.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Pseudoliva santander true whelk | |
Bivalvia | |
Martesia elongata clam | |
"Chlamys greggi" = Dhondtichlamys greggi
"Chlamys greggi" = Dhondtichlamys greggi Harris 1897 scallop |