Where: Monroe County, Alabama (31.5° N, 87.5° W: paleocoordinates 31.8° N, 81.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Red Bluff Formation, Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Red Bluff Clay, for which lithostratigraphic relationships are not discussed. AGE: Vicksburgian = Rupelian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within the Red Bluff Clay.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the USNM
• COLLECTOR: Unknown. REPOSITORY: USNM.
Primary reference: F. Canu and R. S. Bassler. 1920. North American early Tertiary Bryozoa. Smithsonian Institute Bulletin 106:1-843 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 90549: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 04.08.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Stenolaemata | |
Gymnolaemata | |
"Holoporella seposita" = Celleporaria
"Holoporella seposita" = Celleporaria | |
Porella crassoparites, "Hippodiplosia strangulata" = Reussia
"Hippodiplosia strangulata" = Reussia | |
Perigastrella plana, "Peristomella erecta n. sp." = Escharoides
"Peristomella erecta n. sp." = Escharoides | |
Micropora coriacea Johnston 1847 | |
Trypostega venusta Norman 1864 | |
"Stephanosella entomostoma" = Buffonellaria entomostoma
"Stephanosella entomostoma" = Buffonellaria entomostoma Reuss 1848 |