AWi-2, Catherine-Thomaston Highway (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Wilcox County, Alabama (32.2° N, 87.5° W: paleocoordinates 35.2° N, 67.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Clayton spans most of Danian, including nanofossil zones NP1, NP2, and NP3; foram zones P1a and P1c (absence of P1b attributed to ecological factors rather than a hiatus, by Schulte & Speijer, 2009).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

• Clayton primarily represents littoral (foreshore) and inner and middle neritic (offshore transition zone). The majority of the thickness likely represents offshore transition, with some shoreface settings, but with no stratigraphic or lithologic information this collection cannot be assigned an environment.
• Much of the formation is composed of calcareous sandstones, but also marls and sandy packstones.

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 2836: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 21.07.1999

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Hercoglossidae
Hercoglossa ulrichi
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Cucullaea sp.
Cucullaea sp. Lamarck 1801 clam
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea pulaskensis, Ostrea crenulimarginata
Ostrea pulaskensis Harris 1892 oyster
Ostrea crenulimarginata Gabb 1860 oyster
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Campanilidae
Campanile claytonense
unclassified
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Vertebrata indet.
Vertebrata indet. Lamarck 1801
shark tooth