Eocene Wilcox Bashi Marl (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Alabama (31.9° N, 87.6° W: paleocoordinates 33.9° N, 73.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• Lower Eocene, Woods Bluff Horizon

Environment/lithology: marine; marl

• Eocene Wilcox Bashi marl

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by T. H. Aldrich

Primary reference: T. W. Vaughan. 1941. New corals: one recent, Alaska; three Eocene, Alabama and Louisiana. Journal of Paleontology 15(3):280-284 [W. Kiessling/A. Girndt]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 80360: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Antje Girndt on 14.04.2008

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Goniopora aldrichi n. sp. Vaughan 1941 stony coral