Where: Escambria County, Alabama (31.3° N, 86.8° W: paleocoordinates 31.6° N, 79.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Crystal River Limestone Formation, Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)
• supposedly "Ludian"; stage assignment based on Baum et al. 1994; Section AEs-4
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; 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 3557: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 04.08.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
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Bivalvia | |
Gigantostrea trigonalis Conrad 1854 oyster | |
Chlamys spillmani scallop |