Where: Choctaw County, Alabama (32.1° N, 88.2° W: paleocoordinates 34.1° N, 73.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bashi Member (Hatchetigbee Bluff Formation), Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; poorly lithified, yellow sandstone

Size class: mesofossils

Reposited in the YPM

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

• Hansen dissertation material reposited at YPM, was picked and identified by T. Hansen.

Primary reference: T. A. Hansen. 1978. Ecological control of evolutionary rates in Paleocene - Eocene marine molluscs. Ph.D. Thesis, Yale University 1-310 [T. Hansen/M. Sommers/A. Clement]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 83810: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 02.09.2008

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