Prairie Creek (Paleocene of the United States)

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

• Not stated, but probably siliciclastic shallow shelf setting. Clayton elsewhere range from just below storm wavebase, is dominantly offshore transition, with some shoreface and perhaps foreshore (Schulte & Speijer, 2009).

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
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Lyria "sp. A" Gray 1847 volute
Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Bivalvia
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula (Nucula) mediavia Harris 1896 nut clam
 Carditida - Carditidae
Venericardia (Venericor) mediaplata Gardner and Bowles 1939 clam
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea crenulimarginata Gabb 1860 oyster
Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Nautilidae
Eutrephoceras johnsoni n. sp. Miller 1947