AWi-13 (Porters Creek): Selandian, Alabama

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Cricella leana
1 specimen
Hexactinellida - Innaecoeliida - Craticulariidae
Pleurostoma sp. Roemer 1840
1 specimen
originally entered as "Pleurotoma sp."
Gastropoda - Lepetellida - Fissurellidae
Diodora mauryi
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella alabamiensis (De Gregorio 1890)
27 specimens
recombined as Mesalia alabamiensis
Turritella aldrichi
36 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Olivellidae
Agaronia mediavia
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Volutocorbis limopsis
4 specimens
spelled with current rank as Athleta (Volutocorbis)
Volutocorbis rugatus
23 specimens
spelled with current rank as Athleta (Volutocorbis)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Eupleura morula
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Strepsidura contorea
6 specimens
Pseudoliva forma
1 specimen
Pseudoliva vetusta forma
Pseudoliva unicarinata Aldrich 1886
1 specimen
Laevibuccinum constrictum
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Falsifusus harrisi
3 specimens
Clavilithes hubbardanus (Harris 1896)
1 specimen
originally entered as "Cf. Clavilithes hubbardanus"
Latirus tortilis (Whitfield 1865)
19 specimens
recombined as Pseudolatirus tortilis
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Costellariidae
Orthosurcula adeona
12 specimens
Orthosurcula longipersa
1 specimen
Orthosurcula persa
21 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Ptychatractidae
Exilia pergracilis Conrad 1860
4 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turbinellidae
Fulgurofusus quercollis
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Raphitomidae
Pleurotomella whitfieldi
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turridae
Coronia mediavia
1 specimen
spelled with current rank as Gemmula (Coronia)
Gastropoda - Ficidae
Priscoficus sp. Conrad 1866
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Rostellariidae
Calyptraphorus aldrichi
21 specimens
Gastropoda - Cymatiidae
Ranella showalteri
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Polinices eminulus (Conrad 1833)
1 specimen
"eminulus "var" - originally entered as "Polinices eminulus "var"
Euspira perspecta
4 specimens
Natica reversa
6 specimens
Natica sp. Scopoli 1777
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Jupiteria smirna
4 specimens
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Venericardia wilcoxensis Dall 1903
22 specimens
recombined as Venericardia (Baluchicardia) wilcoxensis
Bivalvia - Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Cucullaea macrodonta
25 specimens
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758
1 specimen
originally entered as "Ostrea spp."
Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium mediaviense
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Alabama County:Wilcox
Coordinates: 32.0° North, 87.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.7° North, 69.3° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Paleocene
Stage:Selandian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 1
*Period:Tertiary *Local age/stage:Landenian
Key time interval:Selandian
Age range of interval:61.60000 - 59.20000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Porters Creek Member:Matthews Landing Marl
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray unlithified calcareous marl
Lithology description: lithology described as a marl
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:2918
Authorizer:M. Patzkowsky Enterer:K. Layou
Modifier:L. Eccles Research group:GCP,marine invertebrate
Created:1999-07-22 07:08:30 Last modified:2011-09-30 10:05:07
Access level:the public Released:1999-07-22 07:08:30
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

124. L. D. Toulmin. 1977. Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region. Geological Survey of Alabama, Monograph 13(1):1-602 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou/P. Mannion]

Secondary references:

29915 J. A. Sessa, T. J. Bralower, M. E. Patzkowsky, J. C. Handley, and L. C. Ivany. 2012. Environmental and biological controls on the diversity and ecology of Late Cretaceous through early Paleogene marine ecosystems in the US Gulf Coastal Plain. Paleobiology 38(2):218-239 [M. Patzkowsky/J. Sessa/J. Sessa]