Melvin (Oligocene of the United States)

Where: Choctaw County, Alabama (31.9° N, 88.5° W: paleocoordinates 32.2° N, 82.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Red Bluff Formation (Vicksburg Group), Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)

• 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 87179: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 09.03.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Turbinoliidae
Turbinolia vicksburgensis Monsour 1944 stony coral