3.2km south of Melvin, 137m east of N-S Road (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Choctaw County, Alabama (31.9° N, 88.5° W: paleocoordinates 32.4° N, 80.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Moodys Branch Formation (Jackson Group), Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: sandy, calcareous marl and unlithified, yellow sandstone

• At base is bed of shells enclosed in quartz sand and glauconite. Toward top becomes less sandy and much more calcareous and in many places contains thin strata of indurated marl or impure limestone. In eastern MS and western AL a deposit of fine incoherent yellow sand intervenes between the indurated ledges at top and the more argillaceous marl below

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: G. A. Cooper. 1988. Some Tertiary Brachiopods of the East Coast of the United States. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology (64)1-27 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 153345: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 11.12.2013

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Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Cancellothyrididae
Terebratulina alabamensis