Where: Butler County, Alabama (31.9° N, 86.9° W: paleocoordinates 34.8° N, 66.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Morozovella uncinata and Subbotina trinidadensis foram zone, lower Member (Porters Creek Formation), Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)
• revised age information based on Zullo and Perreault 1991. Local section name: ABu-5
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; poorly lithified, brown, gray, calcareous sandstone
Size class: mesofossils
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 2855: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 21.07.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Nodosariata | |
Nodosaria sp. Lamarck 1812
Dentalina sp. d'Orbigny 1826 | |
Lenticulina sp. Lamarck 1804 | |
Anthozoa | |
Graphularia sp. sea pen | |
Echinoidea | |
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Ophiuroidea | |
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Asteroidea | |
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Sedentaria | |
Cephalopoda | |
Cimomia subrecta Miller and Thompson 1933 | |
Eutrephoceras sp. Hyatt 1894 | |
Bivalvia | |
"Pycnodonte (Phyrgaea) aff. pulaskensis" = Ostrea pulaskensis
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Gastropoda | |
Laevibuccinum constrictum true whelk
Pseudoliva sp. Swainson 1840 true whelk | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium mediaviense tusk shell | |
Ostracoda | |
Cytherella sp. Jones 1849 ostracod | |
Bairdia sp. M'Coy 1844 ostracod | |
Thecostraca | |
Arcoscalpellum toulmini n. sp.
Arcoscalpellum toulmini n. sp. Weisbord 1977 barnacle apparently replaces "Euscalpellum? sp."; species described by Weisbord 1977
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