Where: Covington County, Alabama (31.3° N, 86.5° W: paleocoordinates 31.8° N, 77.7° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Moodys Branch Formation, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)
• supposedly "Auversian"; stage assignment based on Baum et al. 1994. Local section ACov-16.
•Moodys Branch=Bartonian (JAS 14 October 2010)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; glauconitic, yellow, calcareous sandstone
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 3512: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 04.08.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Chlamys cawcawensis scallop
Chlamys nupera Conrad 1854 scallop | |
Gastropoda | |
"Calyptraea aperta" = Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta
"Calyptraea aperta" = Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta Solander 1766 slipper shell originally entered as "Calptraea aperta"
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Echinoidea | |
Periarchus lyelli Conrad 1834 sand dollar | |
unclassified | |
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Anthozoa | |
Flabellum sp. Lesson 1831 stony coral |