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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Balanophyllia (Balanophyllia) haleana Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
Gastropoda | |
Architectonica cupola sundial | |
Laevibuccinum lineatum true whelk
Strepsidura heilprini true whelk | |
Bullia calluspira snail | |
Lirofusus subtenuis snail | |
Caricella heilprini volute | |
Bivalvia | |
Pitar (Pitar) nuttalliopsis venus clam |