Also known as NE Perote; USGS # 32824

Where: Bullock County, Alabama (32.0° N, 85.7° W: paleocoordinates 34.9° N, 63.8° W)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Contusotruncana contusa foram zone, basal Member (Providence Formation), Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• Foraminiferal zonation from King and Skotnicki, 1992.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, phosphatic, gray, argillaceous, calcareous sandstone

Size class: mesofossils

Reposited in the USGS

Collection methods: bulk,

• Sohl collection

Primary reference: N. F. Sohl and C. F. Koch. 1987. Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) larger invertebrates from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the Atlantic Coastal Plain with further data for the East Gulf. USGS Open File Report 87-194:1-172 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 4260: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 14.08.1999

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