Where: Wilcox County, Alabama (31.9° N, 87.1° W: paleocoordinates 34.5° N, 69.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Oak Hill Member (Naheola Formation), Selandian (61.6 - 59.2 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, silty claystone and unlithified 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 90607: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 10.08.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Saccella quercollis Harris 1896 pointed nut clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Atys "sp. B" Montfort 1810 snail | |
Mathilda leona snail | |
"Coronia mediavia" = Gemmula (Coronia)
"Coronia mediavia" = Gemmula (Coronia) turrid | |
Pleurotomella whitfieldi snail | |
Fulgurofusus quercollis snail | |
"Volutocorbis limopsis" = Athleta (Volutocorbis), "Volutocorbis rugatus" = Athleta (Volutocorbis)
"Volutocorbis limopsis" = Athleta (Volutocorbis) volute
"Volutocorbis rugatus" = Athleta (Volutocorbis) volute | |
Agaronia mediavia snail | |
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