Also known as ACl-1
Where: Clarke County, Alabama (31.5° N, 87.8° W: paleocoordinates 32.1° N, 79.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Moodys Branch Formation, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)
• Moody's Marl forms the lower Jacksonian Stage.
•Ivany - age updated to Priabonian
•Moodys Branch=Bartonian (JAS 14 October 2010)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, glauconitic marl
Size class: mesofossils
Collection methods: bulk, core, chemical, mechanical,
• tr= trace found, but no volumetric percentage made due to low specimen counts.
Primary reference: A. H. Cheetham. 1963. Late Eocene Zoogeography of the Eastern Gulf Coast Region. The Geological Society of America Memoir 91:1-113 [L. Ivany/E. Kowalski]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 7317: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Elizabeth Kowalski on 23.05.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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