Where: Washington County, Alabama (31.6° N, 88.3° W: paleocoordinates 32.0° N, 83.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Chickasawhay Formation, Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Mansfield
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: W.C Mansfield. REPOSITORY: USNM.
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 155959: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 04.05.2014, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Echinolampas aldrichi Clark and Twitchell 1915 sea urchin | |
Bivalvia | |
"Nemocardium diversum" = Nemocardium (Nemocardium) diversum
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Chlamys (Plagioctenium) mcguirti Mansfield 1940 calico scallop | |
"Ostrea vicksburgensis" = Lopha (Lopha) vicksburgensis
"Ostrea vicksburgensis" = Lopha (Lopha) vicksburgensis Conrad 1848 oyster | |
Gastropoda | |
Turritella cf. gatunensis Conrad 1857 turret shell |