Where: Choctaw County, Alabama (31.8° N, 88.5° W: paleocoordinates 32.3° N, 80.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: North Twistwood Creek Clay Member (Yazoo Clay Formation), Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• supposedly "Bartonian"; stage assignment based on Baum et al. 1994; Station ACh-17

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified, gray, sandy 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 3538: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 04.08.1999

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