Where: Wilcox County, Alabama (32.0° N, 87.1° W: paleocoordinates 34.7° N, 68.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Midway Group, Paleocene (66.0 - 56.0 Ma)
• "Midway Beds" and "Turritella rocks"
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: T. W. Vaughan. 1900. The Eocene and lower Oligocene coral faunas of the United States with descriptions of a few doubtfully Cretaceous species. United States Geological Survey, Monograph 39:1-263 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 87802: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 25.03.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Anthozoa | |
Mesomorpha duncani n. sp.
Mesomorpha duncani n. sp. Vaughan 1900 stony coral | |
"Siderastrea hexagonalis n. sp." = Siderastrea conferta, Stephanomorpha monticuliformis n. gen. n. sp.
"Siderastrea hexagonalis n. sp." = Siderastrea conferta Duncan 1863 stony coral
Stephanomorpha monticuliformis n. gen. n. sp. Vaughan 1900 stony coral | |
Trochocyathus cingulatus n. sp., Paracyathus cylindricus n. sp.
Trochocyathus cingulatus n. sp. Vaughan 1900 stony coral
Paracyathus cylindricus n. sp. Vaughan 1900 stony coral | |
Astrangia wilcoxensis n. sp.
Astrangia wilcoxensis n. sp. Vaughan 1900 stony coral | |
Dichocoenia alabamensis n. sp.
Dichocoenia alabamensis n. sp. Vaughan 1900 stony coral | |
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Haimesiastraea conferta Vaughan 1900 stony coral | |
? Oculina smithi n. sp.
? Oculina smithi n. sp. Vaughan 1900 stony coral | |
Balanophyllia ponderosa n. sp.
Balanophyllia ponderosa n. sp. Vaughan 1900 stony coral | |