M 669 (Paleocene of the United States)

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: Greggs Landing Marl Member (Tuscahoma Formation), Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)

• member-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 98378: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 05.10.2010

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
Cornulina minax Solander 1766 snail
Cornulina minax compressa\
Bivalvia
 Carditida - Crassatellidae
"Crassatella halei" = Crassatella aquiana Clark 1895 clam
Crassatella tumidula Whitfield 1865 clam
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellina greggi tellin clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Chlamys greggi" = Dhondtichlamys greggi
"Chlamys greggi" = Dhondtichlamys greggi Harris 1897 scallop