AWi-37 (Clayton Fm) (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Wilcox County, Alabama (32.1° N, 87.3° W: paleocoordinates 35.1° N, 67.2° 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-37

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• lithology is described as 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 2823: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 21.07.1999

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Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
"Turritella alabamiensis" = Mesalia alabamiensis, Turritella sp.
"Turritella alabamiensis" = Mesalia alabamiensis De Gregorio 1890 turret shell
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell
originally entered as "Turritella spp."
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea crenulimarginata
Ostrea crenulimarginata Gabb 1860 oyster
 Arcida - Glycymerididae
Glycymeris idonea
Glycymeris idonea Conrad 1865 clam
"idonea subsp." - originally entered as "Glycymeris idonea subsp."
 Carditida - Carditidae
Venericardia mediaplata
Venericardia mediaplata Gardner and Bowles 1939 clam