Where: Henry County, Alabama (30.7° N, 84.9° W: paleocoordinates 33.2° N, 65.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Middle part of the Clayton, overlain by upper Clayton "earthy limestone". Beds 10 and 11 of Toulmin & LaMoreaux, 1963. Middle part of the Clayton Formation belongs to the upper part of NP2, and the mid-upper part of P1a (Schulte & Speijer 2009).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, gray, sandy packstone

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 2814: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 21.07.1999

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