Where: Wilcox County, Alabama (31.8° N, 87.5° W: paleocoordinates 34.3° N, 70.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Bells Landing Marl Member, Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; sandstone
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 87831: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.03.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Balanophyllia annularis n. sp.
Balanophyllia annularis n. sp. Vaughan 1900 stony coral |