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 (Hatchetigbee Bluff Formation), Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• None given.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; unlithified, glauconitic, gray, green, calcareous claystone

Size class: mesofossils

Reposited in the PRI

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

• J. Sessa sieved and identified this bulk sample from the PRI collection: #791

• Gastropod shells were only counted if they contained the apex of the shell; bivalve shells were only counted if they contained the umbo. Collected by G.D. Harris, R. Flower and K.V.W. Palmer, Paleontological Inst. Exp. 1935. Field notebook No. 34. 1+/- bottles broken, discarded 9/3/1974.

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Primary reference: J. A. Sessa, T. J. Bralower, M. E. Patzkowsky, J. C. Handley, and L. C. Ivany. 2012. Environmental and biological controls on the diversity and ecology of Late Cretaceous through early Paleogene marine ecosystems in the US Gulf Coastal Plain. Paleobiology 38(2):218-239 [M. Patzkowsky/J. Sessa/J. Sessa]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 89873: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 19.06.2009

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