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: 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 98365: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 04.10.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Bivalvia | |
Pholas alatoidea clam
Pholas aldrichi clam | |
Corbula concha clam
"Corbula subengonata" = Cuneocorbula subengonata Dall 1898 clam
Vokesula aldrichi Meyer 1885 clam | |
Basterotia prima Aldrich 1921 clam | |
Nemocardium harrisi cockle | |
Gari smithi clam | |
Ervilia lignitica clam | |
Tellina bellsiana tellin clam
Tellina semirotunda tellin clam | |
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Crassatella tumidula Whitfield 1865 clam | |
Venericardia "spp. H", Venericardia (Venericor) aposmithi, "Venericardia (Leuroactis) pilsbryi" = Venericardia (Venericor) pilsbryi, "Venericardia (? Venericor) greggiana" = Venericardia (Baluchicardia) greggiana
Venericardia "spp. H" Lamarck 1801 clam
"Venericardia (Leuroactis) pilsbryi" = Venericardia (Venericor) pilsbryi Stewart 1930 clam
"Venericardia (? Venericor) greggiana" = Venericardia (Baluchicardia) greggiana Dall 1903 clam | |
"Chlamys greggi" = Dhondtichlamys greggi
"Chlamys greggi" = Dhondtichlamys greggi Harris 1897 scallop | |
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Yoldia (Calorhadia) pharcida Dall 1898 pointed nut clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Priscoficus triserialis fig shell | |
Levifusus supraplanus snail | |
Bullia tuomeyi snail | |
Mazzalina tuomeyi snail | |
Mesalia alabamiensis De Gregorio 1890 turret shell | |