AMo-6 (Moodys Branch) (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Monroe County, Alabama (31.5° N, 87.6° W: paleocoordinates 32.2° N, 78.7° 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 AMo-6

•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 3519: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 04.08.1999

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Echinoidea
 Clypeasteroida - Protoscutellidae
Periarchus lyelli Conrad 1834 sand dollar