Where: Monroe County, Alabama (31.5° N, 87.5° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 35.6° N, 60.5° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Bells Landing Marl Member (Tuscahoma Formation), Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; unlithified, glauconitic, argillaceous 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 92034: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 27.10.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Turritella mortoni" = Kapalmerella mortoni, Mesalia alabamiensis
Mesalia alabamiensis De Gregorio 1890 turret shell | |
Epitonium munistriatum wentletrap | |
cf. Cyllene bellana snail | |
Levifusus supraplanus snail | |
Mazzalina tuomeyi snail
Glyptostyla bacula snail | |
"Surcula nasuta" = Turricula
"Surcula nasuta" = Turricula snail | |
Pleurotomella whitfieldi snail | |
""Pleurotoma" capax" = Turris
""Pleurotoma" capax" = Turris turrid | |
Caricella podagrina volute | |
Priscoficus triserialis fig shell
Priscoficus (Fulguroficus) juvenis fig shell | |
Capulus expansus snail | |
"Odostomia (Evalea) bartschi" = Evalea
"Odostomia (Evalea) bartschi" = Evalea snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Venericardia (Venericor) aposmithi, Venericardia (Venericor) nanaplata, "Venericardia (Leuroactis) pilsbryi" = Venericardia (Venericor) pilsbryi
Venericardia (Venericor) nanaplata Gardner and Bowles 1939 clam
"Venericardia (Leuroactis) pilsbryi" = Venericardia (Venericor) pilsbryi Stewart 1930 clam | |
"Corbula subengonata" = Cuneocorbula subengonata, Vokesula aldrichi
"Corbula subengonata" = Cuneocorbula subengonata Dall 1898 clam
Vokesula aldrichi Meyer 1885 clam | |
Pholas alatoidea clam
Pholas aldrichi clam | |
Basterotia prima Aldrich 1921 clam | |
Ervilia lignitica clam | |
Tellina bellsiana tellin clam
Tellina semirotunda tellin clam | |
Nemocardium harrisi cockle | |
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"Chlamys greggi" = Dhondtichlamys greggi
"Chlamys greggi" = Dhondtichlamys greggi Harris 1897 scallop | |
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Yoldia (Calorhadia) pharcida Dall 1898 pointed nut clam | |
Scaphopoda | |
Cadulus "sp. D" Philippi 1844 tusk shell |