AGe-3 (Moodys Branch) (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Geneva County, Alabama (31.0° N, 85.9° W: paleocoordinates 31.5° N, 77.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• 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; Section AGe-3

•Moodys Branch=Bartonian (JAS 14 October 2010)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; 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 3516: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 04.08.1999

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Taxonomic list

Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Chlamys dennisoni scallop
Chlamys deshayesii dennisoni
Chlamys deshayesii Lea 1833 scallop
Chlamys nupera Conrad 1854 scallop
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster
originally entered as "Ostrea spp."
Echinoidea
 Clypeasteroida - Protoscutellidae
Periarchus lyelli Conrad 1834 sand dollar
unclassified
  -
Vertebrata indet. Lamarck 1801
fish vertebra
Vertebrata indet. Lamarck 1801
ray dental plate
Vertebrata indet. Lamarck 1801
shark teeth
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Flabellidae
Flabellum sp. Lesson 1831 stony coral