AMo-4 (Moodys Branch): Bartonian, Alabama
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Flabellidae
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Flabellum wailesii
Conrad 1856
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| Flabellum cuneiforme wailesii | ||||||||||
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Echinoidea
- Spatangoida
- Schizasteridae
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Schizaster armiger
Clark and Twitchell 1915
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13 specimens | |||||||||
| recombined as Paraster armiger | ||||||||||
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Echinoidea
- Clypeasteroida
- Protoscutellidae
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Periarchus lyelli
(Conrad 1834)
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Nuculida
- Nuculidae
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Nucula spheniopsis
(Conrad 1865)
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2 specimens | |||||||||
| recombined as Nucula (Nucula) sphenopsis | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Veneridae
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Callista annexa
Conrad 1865
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Pholadida
- Corbulidae
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Caestocorbula wailesiana
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Astartidae
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Lirodiscus scutellarius
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2 specimens | |||||||||
| Lirodiscus tellinoides scutellarius | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Ostreidae
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Alectryonia vicksburgensis
(Conrad 1848)
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2 specimens | |||||||||
| recombined as Lopha (Lopha) vicksburgensis | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Pectinidae
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Eburneopecten scintillatus
(Conrad 1854)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Chlamys deshayesii
(Lea 1833)
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3 specimens | |||||||||
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Chlamys nupera
Conrad 1854
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Turritellidae
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Turritella sp.
Lamarck 1799
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Alabama | County: | Monroe |
| Coordinates: | 31.5° North, 87.6° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 32.2° North, 78.7° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| Stage: | Bartonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 3 |
| *Period: | Tertiary | ||
| *International age/stage: | Early/Lower Priabonian | *Local age/stage: | Auversian |
| Key time interval: | Bartonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 41.20000 - 37.71000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Moodys Branch | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: supposedly "Auversian"; stage assignment based on Baum et al. 1994; Section AMo-4
Moodys Branch=Bartonian (JAS 14 October 2010) | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | unlithified sandstone |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 3518 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Patzkowsky | Enterer: | K. Layou |
| Modifier: | U. Smith | Research group: | GCP,marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 1999-08-04 08:39:45 | Last modified: | 2010-10-14 04:17:26 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1999-08-04 08:39:45 |
| 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] |