Also known as PRI 2179
Where: Wilcox County, Alabama (31.9° N, 87.1° W: paleocoordinates 34.9° N, 67.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Clayton Formation (Midway Group), Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: mesofossils
Collected by L.C. Johnson; reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: A. K. Miller. 1947. Tertiary nautiloids of the Americas. Geological Society of America Memoir 23:1-234 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 98391: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 05.10.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Lyria "sp. A" Gray 1847 volute | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium eugenii tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Nucula (Nucula) mediavia Harris 1896 nut clam | |
Venericardia (Venericor) mediaplata Gardner and Bowles 1939 clam | |
Ostrea crenulimarginata Gabb 1860 oyster | |
Cephalopoda | |
Eutrephoceras johnsoni n. sp.
Eutrephoceras johnsoni n. sp. Miller 1947 |