Where: Wayne County, Alabama (31.6° N, 88.7° W: paleocoordinates 32.0° N, 83.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Chickasawhay Limestone Formation, Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)
• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Chicasawhay Limestone, for which lithostratigraphic relations are not discussed. AGE: Late Oligocene in text. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position in local section.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: poorly lithified, medium-grained, coarse, glauconitic, brown, yellow limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Cooke, Munyan; reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: C.W. Cooke. REPOSITORY: USNM.
Primary reference: C. W. Cooke. 1959. Cenozoic echinoids of eastern United States. United States Geological Survey Professional Papers 321:1-106 [L. Villier/L. Villier/M. Hopkins]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 155934: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 04.05.2014, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
"Thylechinus (Gagaria) chickasawhay n. sp." = Gagaria chickasawhay1
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Bivalvia | |
"Ostrea vicksburgensis" = Lopha (Lopha) vicksburgensis2
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