Where: Clarke County, Alabama (31.6° N, 87.6° W: paleocoordinates 32.2° N, 78.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Gosport Sand Formation (Claiborne Group), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• None.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; unlithified, glauconitic, sandy 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 81275: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 16.06.2008

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