Where: Sumter County, Alabama (32.4° N, 88.0° W: paleocoordinates 35.5° N, 68.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• hand sample-level geographic resolution
When: Porters Creek Formation (Midway Group), Danian to Danian (66.0 - 59.2 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Porters [Creek] Clay Fm (=Sucarnochee Clay) of the Midway Group. AGE: Early Paleocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position in Porters Clay Fm.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: Unknown. REPOSITORY: State University of Iowa and Alabama Museum of Natural History.
Primary reference: A. K. Miller and M. L. Thompson. 1933. The nautiloid cephalopods of the Midway Group. Journal of Paleontology 7(3):298-324 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 80975: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 24.05.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Cimomia haltomi Aldrich 1931 |