Where: Washington County, Alabama (31.5° N, 88.1° W: paleocoordinates 32.2° N, 79.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Gosport Sand Formation (Claiborne Group), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• Zone B of Gardener, Oct. 3, 1940

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

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

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: K. V. Palmer and D. C. Brann. 1965. Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Peteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda. Bulletins of American Paleontology 48:1-471 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 90474: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 29.07.2009

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