Woods Bluff (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Clarke County, Alabama (31.9° N, 88.1° W: paleocoordinates 34.0° N, 73.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bashi Member, Early/Lower Eocene (55.8 - 48.6 Ma)

• Bashi aka Woods Bluff Beds

• group of beds-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 87834: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.03.2009, edited by Austin Hendy

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Taxonomic list

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Gymnolaemata
 Cheilostomata - Buffonellodidae
Aimulosia clavula n. sp.
 Cheilostomata - Electridae
Conopeum wilcoxianicum n. sp., ? Conopeum similior n. sp.
? Conopeum similior n. sp. Canu and Bassler 1920
 Cheilostomata - Lunulariidae
Lunularia ovata
 Cheilostomata - Bryocryptellidae
Rhamphostomella simplex n. sp.
 Cheilostomata - Calloporidae
? Alderina nodulosa
 Cheilostomata - Adeonidae
Adeonellopsis porosa n. sp., Adeonellopsis magniporosa n. sp.
 Cheilostomata - Trypostegidae
Trypostega elongata n. sp.
Stenolaemata
 Cyclostomata - Plagioeciidae
Plagioecia tubifer n. sp.
 Cyclostomata - Terviidae
Lagonoecia lamellifera n. sp.
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Paracyathus granulosus n. sp., Paracyathus rugosus n. sp.
Paracyathus granulosus n. sp. Vaughan 1900 stony coral
Paracyathus rugosus n. sp. Vaughan 1900 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Flabellidae
Flabellum johnsoni n. sp.
Flabellum johnsoni n. sp. Vaughan 1900 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Columastreidae
Haimesiastraea conferta
Haimesiastraea conferta Vaughan 1900 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Balanophyllia desmophyllum, Balanophyllia haleana, "Eupsammia elaborata" = Balanophyllia
Balanophyllia desmophyllum Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Balanophyllia haleana Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
"Eupsammia elaborata" = Balanophyllia stony coral