Where: Wilcox County, Alabama (31.8° N, 87.5° W: paleocoordinates 34.4° N, 70.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Greggs Landing or Bells Landing Marls Member (Tuscahoma Formation), Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)

• Cannot be refined to either Greggs or Bells beds (JAS)

• 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 98409: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 06.10.2010

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