M 12 (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Clarke County, Alabama (31.9° N, 87.8° W: paleocoordinates 33.9° N, 73.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• Environment from PBDB col 80780
• Lithology from PBDB col # 80780 - glauconitic,gray,green unlithified sandy,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 91719: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 17.10.2009

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Balanophyllia (Balanophyllia) haleana Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Architectonicidae
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
 Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
 Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Veneridae