Where: Monroe County, Alabama (31.8° N, 87.4° W: paleocoordinates 34.3° N, 70.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Greggs Landing Marl Member (Tuscahoma Formation), Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; unlithified, fine-grained, medium, glauconitic, shelly/skeletal, gray, green, silty, calcareous sandstone
Size class: mesofossils
Collection methods: Collected by G.D. Harris.
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 90818: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 18.08.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Bivalvia | |
Yoldia (Calorhadia) pharcida Dall 1898 pointed nut clam
Saccella robusta pointed nut clam | |
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"Chlamys greggi" = Dhondtichlamys greggi
"Chlamys greggi" = Dhondtichlamys greggi Harris 1897 scallop | |
Panopea alabama clam | |
Basterotia prima Aldrich 1921 clam | |
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Nemocardium harrisi cockle | |
Tellina bellsiana, Tellina greggi, Tellina semirotunda, Tellina (Arcopagia) trumani, Tellina temperata
Tellina bellsiana tellin clam
Tellina greggi tellin clam
Tellina semirotunda tellin clam
Tellina (Arcopagia) trumani Harris 1897 tellin clam
Tellina temperata Aldrich 1911 tellin clam | |
Gari harrisi clam | |
Ervilia lignitica clam | |
Pholas alatoidea clam
Pholas aldrichi clam | |
"Corbula subengonata" = Cuneocorbula subengonata, Vokesula aldrichi
"Corbula subengonata" = Cuneocorbula subengonata Dall 1898 clam
Vokesula aldrichi Meyer 1885 clam | |
"Venericardia (? Venericor) greggiana" = Venericardia (Baluchicardia) greggiana, Venericardia (Venericor) aposmithi, "Venericardia (Leuroactis) pilsbryi" = Venericardia (Venericor) pilsbryi, Venericardia (Venericor) nanaplata
"Venericardia (? Venericor) greggiana" = Venericardia (Baluchicardia) greggiana Dall 1903 clam
"Venericardia (Leuroactis) pilsbryi" = Venericardia (Venericor) pilsbryi Stewart 1930 clam
Venericardia (Venericor) nanaplata Gardner and Bowles 1939 clam including Venericardia (Venericor) nanaplata nanna
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Crassatella tumidula, "Crassatella halei" = Crassatella aquiana
Crassatella tumidula Whitfield 1865 clam
"Crassatella halei" = Crassatella aquiana Clark 1895 clam | |
Scaphopoda | |
Cadulus "sp. D" Philippi 1844 tusk shell | |
Dentalium multannulatum tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
Epitonium exquisitum wentletrap
Epitonium munistriatum wentletrap | |
cf. Natica aperta moon snail | |
Cerithiopsis greggiensis Aldrich 1911 snail | |
Eocypraea eosmithi Aldrich 1886 snail | |
Mazzalina tuomeyi snail | |
Levifusus supraplanus snail | |
Bullia tuomeyi snail
Nassarius exilis snail | |
Cantharus (Endopachychilus) elegantissimus true whelk
cf. Pseudoneptunea harrisi true whelk | |
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Odontopolys sublevis murex snail | |
"Surcula nasuta" = Turricula
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"Turris" sp., Hemisurcula silicata, cf. Sullivania roscoei, ? Surculoma servatoidea, Coronia childreni
"Turris" sp. Röding 1798 turrid
Hemisurcula silicata turrid
cf. Sullivania roscoei turrid
? Surculoma servatoidea turrid | |
Cochlespira greggi snail | |
Fulgurofusus rugatus snail | |
Narona greggi snail
Sveltia gilberti snail | |
Agaronia "sp. B" Gray 1839 snail | |
Fusitoma sipha snail | |
Aporrhais aldrichi snail | |
Perissolax eocensis fig shell
Priscoficus triserialis fig shell | |
"Ampullella recurva" = Ampullina
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Turritella bellifera turret shell
Turritella eurynome turret shell
Turritella praecincta turret shell
Mesalia alabamiensis De Gregorio 1890 turret shell | |
Melanopsis anita snail | |
Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta Solander 1766 slipper shell | |
Atys robustoides snail | |
Scaphander alabamensis snail | |
Crenilabium cossmanni snail | |
Architectonica greggi sundial
Architectonica intusa sundial | |
Odostomia insignifica, Pyramidella (Iphiana) obtusoides, "Turbonilla (Ptycheulimella) clinensis" = Ptycheulimella, Turbonilla (Cingulina) tuscahomensis
Odostomia insignifica Anderson and Hanna 1925 snail
"Turbonilla (Ptycheulimella) clinensis" = Ptycheulimella snail | |
Solariorbis "sp. B" Conrad 1865 snail | |
Diodora alabama snail |