Where: Dale County, Alabama (31.8° N, 86.6° W: paleocoordinates 34.2° N, 69.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: "Ostrea thirsae" Member (Nanafalia Formation), Selandian to Selandian (61.6 - 56.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; unlithified sandstone
Size class: mesofossils
Primary reference: L. D. Toulmin. 1977. Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region. Geological Survey of Alabama, Monograph 13(1):1-602 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 80367: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 15.04.2008, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Oculina alabamensis Vaughan 1900 stony coral | |
Balanophyllia desmophyllum Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral Balanophyllia desmophyllumm microcostada
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Bivalvia | |
"Yoldia" sp. Möller 1842 clam | |
cf. Calorhadia aldrichiana, "cf. Calorhadia pharcida" = Calorhadia (Calorhadia) pharcida, Nuculana corpulentoides
cf. Calorhadia aldrichiana pointed nut clam
"cf. Calorhadia pharcida" = Calorhadia (Calorhadia) pharcida Dall 1898 pointed nut clam | |
Odontogryphaea thirsae, "Ostrea arrosis" = Ostrea (Ostrea) arrosis
Odontogryphaea thirsae Gabb 1862 oyster
"Ostrea arrosis" = Ostrea (Ostrea) arrosis Aldrich 1904 oyster | |
Barbatia ludoviciana clam | |
Venericardia aposmithi, Venericardia sp., Venericardia nanaplata, "Venericardia pilsbryi" = Venericardia (Venericor) pilsbryi
Venericardia sp. Lamarck 1801 clam
Venericardia nanaplata Gardner and Bowles 1939 clam
"Venericardia pilsbryi" = Venericardia (Venericor) pilsbryi Stewart 1930 clam | |
Crassatella tumidula Whitfield 1865 clam | |
"Cardium" sp. Linnaeus 1758 cockle
Acanthocardia tuomeyi Aldrich 1886 cockle | |
Tellina bellsiana tellin clam
Tellina greggi tellin clam
Tellina subtriangularis tellin clam
Tellina sp. Linnaeus 1758 tellin clam | |
Pitar sp. Römer 1857 venus clam | |
Bornia prima clam | |
Pholas alatoidea clam | |
Corbula sp., "Corbula subengonata" = Cuneocorbula subengonata
Corbula sp. Bruguière 1789 clam
"Corbula subengonata" = Cuneocorbula subengonata Dall 1898 clam | |
Epilucina sp. Dall 1901 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
? Architectonica bellensis sundial | |
"Calyptraea aperta" = Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta
"Calyptraea aperta" = Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta Solander 1766 slipper shell | |
Orthosurcula indenta ribbed mitre | |
cf. Scaphella newcombiana volute
cf. Caricella ludoviciana volute | |
Hemisurcula silicata turrid
cf. Sullivania tombigbeensis turrid | |
Levifusus supraplanus snail | |
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Pseudoliva sp. Swainson 1840 true whelk
"Pseudoliva scalina" = Popenoeum scalina Heilprin 1881 true whelk | |
Mesalia biplicata, Mesalia alabamiensis, "Turritella mortoni" = Kapalmerella mortoni, Turritella multilira, Turritella praecincta, Turritella "sp. B"
Mesalia biplicata turret shell
Mesalia alabamiensis De Gregorio 1890 turret shell
Turritella praecincta turret shell
Turritella "sp. B" Lamarck 1799 turret shell | |
cf. Elimia trigemmata Conrad 1860 snail | |
Diodora "sp. A" Gray 1821 snail
Diodora "sp. B" Gray 1821 snail | |
Reptilia | |
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Pisces | |
"Pisces indet." = Osteichthyes
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Chondrichthyes | |
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