Where: Wilcox County, Alabama (31.9° N, 87.0° W: paleocoordinates 34.9° N, 67.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: lower Member (Porters Creek Formation), Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)
• Local section name: AWi-10
•Lower Porters Creek=Danian (JAS 14Oct2010)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; poorly lithified, concretionary, glauconitic, phosphatic, gray, green, yellow, calcareous claystone
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 2862: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 21.07.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Balanophyllia sp. Wood 1844 stony coral | |
Flabellum conoideum Vaughan 1900 stony coral | |
Polychaeta | |
Bivalvia | |
"Nucula mediavia" = Nucula (Nucula) mediavia
"Nucula mediavia" = Nucula (Nucula) mediavia Harris 1896 nut clam | |
Cucullaea macrodonta clam | |
"Venericardia wilcoxensis" = Venericardia (Baluchicardia) wilcoxensis
"Venericardia wilcoxensis" = Venericardia (Baluchicardia) wilcoxensis Dall 1903 clam | |
"Crassatella sepulcollis" = Crassatella aquiana
"Crassatella sepulcollis" = Crassatella aquiana Clark 1895 clam | |
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Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium mediaviense tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
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Pseudoliva sp. Swainson 1840 true whelk | |
Natica sp. Scopoli 1777 moon snail
Euspira perspecta moon snail | |
"Turritella alabamiensis" = Mesalia alabamiensis, Turritella aldrichi
"Turritella alabamiensis" = Mesalia alabamiensis De Gregorio 1890 turret shell
Turritella aldrichi turret shell | |
Cephalopoda | |
Hercoglossa ulrichi White 1882 nautiloid |