Where: Choctaw County, Alabama (32.1° N, 88.2° W: paleocoordinates 34.1° N, 73.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bashi Member (Hatchetigbee Bluff Formation), Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• Rep 1 is 8.8m laterally from Rep 2 and about 40cm above it

•Rep 3 is 3.8m laterally from Rep 1

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; unlithified, glauconitic, muddy, calcareous sandstone

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: bulk, sieve

• Gastropod shells were only counted if they contained the apex of the shell; bivalve shells were only counted if they contained the umbo

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 90040: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 01.07.2009

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