Where: Crenshaw County, Alabama (31.7° N, 86.3° W: paleocoordinates 34.5° N, 66.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Clayton Formation (Midway Group), Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)
• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: Not stated in text; assumed to be from Clayton Fm, on the basis of other local collections. AGE: Paleocene in test; assumed to be Danian on the basis of age of other local collections. STRATIGRAPHIC REPORTED: From unknown position in local section.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by MacNeil; reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: F.S. MacNeil. REPOSITORY: USNM (formerly USGS).
Primary reference: C. W. Cooke. 1959. Cenozoic echinoids of eastern United States. United States Geological Survey Professional Papers 321:1-106 [L. Villier/L. Villier/M. Hopkins]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 155924: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 04.05.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Echanthus georgiensis Clark and Twitchell 1915 sea urchin |