Also known as ACl-4-a2
Where: Clarke County, Alabama (31.5° N, 87.8° W: paleocoordinates 32.1° N, 79.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Member (Lisbon Formation), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)
• uppermost shell bed within the upper Lisbon Fm exposed at Little Stave
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; unlithified, glauconitic, argillaceous, calcareous sandstone
Size class: mesofossils
Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite
Collection methods: bulk, mechanical, sieve,
Primary reference: L. C. Ivany. 1997. Faunal stability and environmental change in the middle Eocene Gulf Coastal Plain (PhD Thesis, Harvard University). 1-221 [L. Ivany/L. Ivany/A. Clement]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 2454: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Linda Ivany on 05.07.1999, edited by Jocelyn Sessa
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gymnolaemata | |
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"Holoporella granulosa" = Celleporaria
"Holoporella granulosa" = Celleporaria | |
Bivalvia | |
"Nucula magnifica" = Nucula (Nucula) magnifica
"Nucula magnifica" = Nucula (Nucula) magnifica Conrad 1833 nut clam | |
Nuculana sp. Link 1807 pointed nut clam
Nuculana multilineata pointed nut clam | |
Abra nitens Lea 1833 abra | |
Caestocorbula fossata, "Caryocorbula alabamiensis" = Corbula (Caryocorbula) alabamiensis
"Caryocorbula alabamiensis" = Corbula (Caryocorbula) alabamiensis Lea 1833 clam | |
Bathytormus sp. Stewart 1930 clam | |
"Venericardia rotunda" = Venericardia (Rotundicardia) rotunda, Venericardia (Claibornicardia) trapaquara
"Venericardia rotunda" = Venericardia (Rotundicardia) rotunda Lea 1833 clam
Venericardia (Claibornicardia) trapaquara Harris 1895 clam | |
Modiolaria alabamensis mussel | |
Pachecoa pulchra clam
Barbatia (Plagiarca) rhomboidella Lea 1833 clam | |
Limopsis aviculoides Conrad 1862 clam | |
Cubitostrea sellaeformis Conrad 1832 oyster | |
Chlamys cainei scallop
Chlamys wahtubbeana Dall 1898 scallop | |
Scaphopoda | |
Cadulus sp. Philippi 1844 tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
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Bayania secale snail | |
Cerithiella nassula snail | |
Naticidae indet. Guilding 1834 moon snail | |
"Ficopsis penita" = Ficus
"Ficopsis penita" = Ficus fig shell | |
"Phalium brevicostatum" = Cassis brevicostatus
"Phalium brevicostatum" = Cassis brevicostatus Conrad 1834 snail | |
Conus smithvillensis Harris 1895 cone shell | |
Microdrillia robustula snail | |
Raphitoma sp. Monterosato 1884 snail | |
"Ancistrosyrinx bella" = Cochlespira
"Ancistrosyrinx bella" = Cochlespira snail | |
"Coronia margaritosa" = Gemmula (Coronia) turrid
Surculoma falsabenes turrid
Michela trabeatoides Harris 1895 turrid | |
"Athleta petrosus" = Athleta petrosa Conrad 1833 volute
Caricella stenzeli volute
Bullata semen Lea 1833 volute | |
Murex fusates, "Murex vanuxemi" = Hexaplex (Hexaplex) vanuxemi
Murex fusates murex snail
"Murex vanuxemi" = Hexaplex (Hexaplex) vanuxemi Conrad 1865 murex snail | |
Agaronia sp. Gray 1839 snail
Agaronia alabamensis Conrad 1833 snail | |
Pyramimitra terebraeformis Conrad 1848 ribbed mitre | |
Trigonostoma penrosei snail | |
Latirus moorei Gabb 1860 snail
Clavilithes kennedyanus snail | |
Terebrifusus multiplicatus true whelk
Siphonalia newtonensis true whelk | |
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Vitrinella sp. Adams 1850 snail | |
Tornus infraplicatus Johnson 1899 snail | |
Architectonica amoena sundial | |
"Actaeon idoneus" = Acteon idoneus
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Pyramidella pseudopymaea snail | |
Retusa galba snail | |
Anthozoa | |
Turbinolia pharetra Lea 1833 stony coral | |
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Endopachys maclurii Lea 1833 stony coral | |
Discotrochus orbignianus stony coral | |
Hexactinellida | |
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