Where: Clarke County, Alabama (31.5° N, 87.8° W: paleocoordinates 33.2° N, 74.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tallahatta Formation (Claiborne Group), Ypresian to Ypresian (56.0 - 41.3 Ma)

• 10-12 ft. below top of Tallahatta in Lucina clays and 8-10 ft. above Discocyclina advena zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified claystone

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 87172: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 09.03.2009

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