Black Bluff (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Sumter County, Alabama (32.4° N, 88.0° W: paleocoordinates 35.2° N, 69.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Sucarnochee Clay Formation (Midway Group), Paleocene (66.0 - 56.0 Ma)

• Sucarnochee or Black Bluff Beds

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified claystone

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 87815: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 25.03.2009, edited by Samantha Yost

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Taxonomic list

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Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Lyreididae
Rogueus johnsoni
Rogueus johnsoni Rathbun 1935 crab
E.A. Smith collected 2 fragments, July 20, 1886 (Ala. Mus. Nat. Hist.)
 Decapoda - Palinuridae
Linuparus wilcoxensis
Linuparus wilcoxensis Rathbun 1935 spiny lobster
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
"Trochocyathus hyatti n. sp." = Trochocyathus lakii
"Trochocyathus hyatti n. sp." = Trochocyathus lakii Duncan 1880 stony coral