Where: Clarke County, Alabama (31.7° N, 87.7° W: paleocoordinates 31.9° N, 81.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Red Bluff Clay Formation, Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Cooke; 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: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 155971: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 04.05.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Eupatagus (Brissopatagus) alabamensis Cooke 1942 heart urchin
Cyclaster drewryensis Cooke 1942 heart urchin | |
Paraster armiger Clark and Twitchell 1915 heart urchin |