Washington Old Court House (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Washington County, Alabama (31.7° N, 88.3° W: paleocoordinates 32.2° N, 80.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Yazoo Formation (Jackson Group), Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; marl

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. C. Koch. 1846. Kurze Beschreibung des Hydrarchos harlani (Koch), eines reisenmassigen Meerungeheuers und dessen Entdeckung in Alabama in Nordamerika im Frujahr 1845, Dresden 1-20 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 77362: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 09.01.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cetacea - Basilosauridae
Pontogeneus brachyspondylus Müller 1849 whale