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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Spondylus hollisteri scallop
Chlamys cawcawensis scallop
Chlamys deshayesii Lea 1833 scallop
Chlamys nupera Conrad 1854 scallop | |
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Echinoidea | |
Periarchus lyelli Conrad 1834 sand dollar | |
unclassified | |
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Anthozoa | |
Flabellum sp. Lesson 1831 stony coral |