Where: Monroe County, Alabama (31.5° N, 87.5° W: paleocoordinates 32.1° N, 78.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Gosport Sand Formation (Claiborne Group), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• "At each site, the horizon sampled was in the lower third of the exposure, approx. 2m above the base of the formation, but stratigraphic equivalence is undetermined."

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified, glauconitic, shelly/skeletal, calcareous sandstone and shale

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: bulk, mechanical, sieve,

• "Numbers of specimens reflect number of identifiable gastropod apices and total number of bivalve umbos; unidentifiable fragments were not counted."

Primary reference: E. A. CoBabe and W. D. Allmon. 1994. Effects of sampling on paleoecologic and taphonomic analyses in high-diversity fossil accumulations: an example from the Eocene Gosport Sand, Alabama. Lethaia 27:167-178 [A. Miller/K. Layou/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 5335: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 24.09.1999

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