Where: Choctaw County, Alabama (31.9° N, 88.3° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 35.6° N, 68.5° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Lower Member (Lisbon Formation), Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)
• None.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; unlithified, glauconitic, gray, green, silty, 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 81211: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 10.06.2008
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Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Cubitostrea smithvillensis Harris 1919 oyster | |
Chlamys clarkeana Aldrich 1895 scallop | |
Anomia ephippioides Gabb 1860 jingle | |
Pachecoa declivis clam | |
"? Venericardia densata" = Venericardia (Venericor) densata, "Venericardia nasuta" = Venericardia (Claibornicardia) nasuta
"? Venericardia densata" = Venericardia (Venericor) densata Conrad 1845 clam
"Venericardia nasuta" = Venericardia (Claibornicardia) nasuta Dall 1903 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Pseudoliva vetusta Conrad 1833 true whelk | |
Mesalia claibornensis turret shell
Turritella lisbonensis turret shell | |
Anthozoa | |
"Archohelia gardnerae" = Petrophyllia gardnerae
"Archohelia gardnerae" = Petrophyllia gardnerae Vaughan 1941 stony coral |