AWi-29 (Clayton Fm) (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Wilcox County, Alabama (32.0° N, 87.3° W: paleocoordinates 35.0° N, 67.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Local section name: AWi-29

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; limestone

• lithology is a sandy, silty 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 2817: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 21.07.1999

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Carditida - Crassatellidae
cf. Crassatella ioannes
cf. Crassatella ioannes clam
originally entered as "Crassatella cf. C. ioannes"
 Cardiida - Veneridae
? Pitar ripleyanus
? Pitar ripleyanus venus clam
originally entered as "Pitar? ripleyanus"
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea crenulimarginata
Ostrea crenulimarginata Gabb 1860 oyster