Little Stave Creek, loc. 1304, lower Lisbon (Eocene to of the United States)

Where: Clarke County, Alabama (31.5° N, 87.8° W: paleocoordinates 32.4° N, 77.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lisbon Formation (Claiborne Group), Lutetian to Lutetian (47.8 - 38.0 Ma)

• 6 feet above base of the formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. Monsour. 1944. Fossil corals of the genus Turbinolia from the Golf Coast. Journal of Paleontology 18(2):109-118 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 87138: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 06.03.2009

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Turbinoliidae
Turbinolia gigantissima n. sp., Turbinolia tenuis n. sp., Turbinolia subtercisa
Turbinolia gigantissima n. sp. Monsour 1944 stony coral
Turbinolia tenuis n. sp. Monsour 1944 stony coral
Turbinolia subtercisa Monsour 1944 stony coral
n. var. lisbonensis