PRI Porters Creek 4 (Paleocene to of the United States)

Where: Wilcox County, Alabama (30.3° N, 87.0° W: paleocoordinates 33.3° N, 67.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Porters Creek Formation (Midway Group), Danian to Danian (66.0 - 59.2 Ma)

• labeled Midway Group, possibly Porters Creek Fm

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Reposited in the PRI

• PRI catalog #9542

Primary reference: J. A. Sessa, M. E. Patzkowsky, and T. J. Bralower. 2009. Impact of lithification on the diversity, size distribution, and recovery dynamics of marine invertebrate assemblages. Geology 37(2):115-118 [M. Patzkowsky/J. Sessa/J. Sessa]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 86398: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 01.02.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Carditida - Carditidae
"Venericardia alticostata" = Venericardia (Claibornicardia) alticostata
"Venericardia alticostata" = Venericardia (Claibornicardia) alticostata Conrad 1833 clam