Where: Sumter County, Alabama (32.4° N, 88.0° W: paleocoordinates 35.5° N, 67.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• hand sample-level geographic resolution
When: Porters Creek Formation (Midway Group), Early/Lower Paleocene (66.0 - 61.7 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From unknown lithostratigraphic unit within the Midway Group, but probably Porters Clay or Clayton Fm. AGE: Early Paleocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position in section.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, 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. 1947. Tertiary nautiloids of the Americas. Geological Society of America Memoir 23:1-234 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 81889: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 17.07.2008, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Cimomia vaughani Gardner 1923 nautiloid | |
Reptilia | |
Agomphus alabamensis n. sp.
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