Also known as Unit 1, Marianna Limestone, Marinna and Byram section

Where: Washington County, Alabama (31.6° N, 88.3° W: paleocoordinates 31.9° N, 81.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Marianna Limestone Formation, Early/Lower Oligocene (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)

• Unit of Marianna Limestone, 40 ft thick, underlying 15 ft of Byram Formation (Glendon Limesone Mbr). Washington regional section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: poorly lithified, black, gray, yellow limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Unknown repository. Page 135.

Primary reference: L.D. Toulmin, P.E. La Moreaux, and C.R. Lanphere. 1951. Geology and ground-water resources of Choctaw County, Alabama. Geological Survey of Alabama Special Report 21 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 42155: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 24.07.2004

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