Gulf Coast Tertiary I (Eocene to of the United States)
Where: Choctaw County, Alabama (31.8° N, 88.2° W: paleocoordinates 32.8° N, 77.9° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Lisbon Formation, Lutetian to Lutetian (47.8 - 38.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; glauconitic sandstone and siltstone
• Occurence of coral ranges only through the lower 10 feet of the Lisbon. This portion of the section is composed principally of glauconitic sands and silts with varying amounts of lime and thin beds of Ostrea lisbonensis. Beds above are mainly marly
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: D. F. Squires. 1957. New Species of Caryophylliid corals from the Gulf Coast Tertiary. Journal of Paleontology 31(5):992-996 [W. Kiessling/A. Girndt/A. Girndt]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 78662: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Antje Girndt on 13.02.2008
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Caryophyllia mcglameryae n. sp.
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