Where: Monroe County, Alabama (31.8° N, 87.4° W: paleocoordinates 34.3° N, 70.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bells Landing Marl Member (Tuscahoma Formation), Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)

• The fossiliferous bed, about 9 feet thick, contains the characteristic large spheroidal concretions 5 or 6 feet thick, and the characteristic large shells of Ostrea sinuosa, Venericardia aposmithii, and Turritella postmortoni as well as other mollusks.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; unlithified, glauconitic, gray, green 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 80761: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 06.05.2008

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