Where: Wilcox County, Alabama (31.9° N, 87.1° W: paleocoordinates 34.5° N, 69.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Oak Hill Member (Naheola Formation), Selandian (61.6 - 59.2 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, black, silty claystone and unlithified sandstone
Size class: mesofossils
Primary reference: K. V. Palmer and D. C. Brann. 1965. Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Peteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda. Bulletins of American Paleontology 48:1-471 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 90608: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 10.08.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Nucula "sp. B" Lamarck 1799 nut clam | |
Saccella quercollis Harris 1896 pointed nut clam | |
"Venericardia wilcoxensis" = Venericardia (Baluchicardia) wilcoxensis, cf. Miodontiscus aldrichianus
"Venericardia wilcoxensis" = Venericardia (Baluchicardia) wilcoxensis Dall 1903 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Diodora mauryi snail | |
? Levifusus dalei snail | |
Narona quercollis snail | |
""Pleurotoma" "sp. B"" = Turris
""Pleurotoma" "sp. B"" = Turris Röding 1798 turrid | |
Caricella leana, "Volutocorbis rugatus" = Athleta (Volutocorbis)
Caricella leana volute
"Volutocorbis rugatus" = Athleta (Volutocorbis) volute | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium mediaviense tusk shell |