Where: Clarke County, Alabama (31.7° N, 87.7° W: paleocoordinates 32.1° N, 79.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Shubuta Member (Yazoo Clay Formation), Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)
• supposedly "Ludian"; stage assignment based on Baum et al. 1994; Section ACl-10
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified, glauconitic, yellow, argillaceous carbonate
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 3549: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 04.08.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Flabellum sp. Lesson 1831 stony coral | |
Echinoidea | |
Cidaris pratti Clark and Twitchell 1915 pencil urchin | |
Macropneustes mortoni Conrad 1850 heart urchin | |
"Schizaster armiger" = Paraster armiger
"Schizaster armiger" = Paraster armiger Clark and Twitchell 1915 heart urchin | |
unclassified | |
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Bivalvia | |
"Alectryonia vicksburgensis" = Lopha (Lopha) vicksburgensis
"Alectryonia vicksburgensis" = Lopha (Lopha) vicksburgensis Conrad 1848 oyster | |
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Chlamys danvillensis scallop
Chlamys spillmani scallop | |
Gastropoda | |
Cirsotrema ranellinum wentletrap | |
"Conus tortilis" = Conus sauridens
"Conus tortilis" = Conus sauridens Conrad 1833 cone shell | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Terebratulina lachryma Morton 1833 |