Where: Monroe County, Alabama (31.5° N, 87.6° W: paleocoordinates 32.0° N, 79.8° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Shubuta Member (Yazoo Clay Formation), Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)
• supposedly "Ludian"; stage assignment based on Baum et al. 1994; Section AMo-5
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified, calcareous shale
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 3551: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 04.08.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Macropneustes mortoni Conrad 1850 heart urchin | |
Bivalvia | |
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