Where: Wilcox County, Alabama (32.0° N, 87.1° W: paleocoordinates 34.9° N, 67.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: lower Member (Porters Creek Formation), Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)

• Lower Porters Creek=Danian (JAS 14Oct2010)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; silty, 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 2863: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 21.07.1999

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