ABu-11 (Clayton Fm) (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Butler County, Alabama (31.9° N, 86.9° W: paleocoordinates 34.8° N, 66.9° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pine Barren Member (Clayton Formation), Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)

• local section name: ABu-11

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, yellow, sandy limestone

• lithology described as yellow hard crystalline fossiliferous limestone

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: L. D. Toulmin. 1977. Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region. Geological Survey of Alabama, Monograph 13(1):1-602 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 2812: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 21.07.1999

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Carditida - Carditidae
Venericardia mediaplata
Venericardia mediaplata Gardner and Bowles 1939 clam
 Arcida - Glycymerididae
Glycymeris idonea
Glycymeris idonea Conrad 1865 clam
"idonea subsp." - originally entered as "Glycymeris idonea subsp."
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea crenulimarginata
Ostrea crenulimarginata Gabb 1860 oyster
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
"Turritella alabamiensis" = Mesalia alabamiensis, Turritella aldrichi
"Turritella alabamiensis" = Mesalia alabamiensis De Gregorio 1890 turret shell
Turritella aldrichi turret shell
Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Callianassidae
Callianassa sp.
Callianassa sp. Leach 1814 decapod