M 21 (Paleocene to of the United States)

Where: Wilcox County, Alabama (31.9° N, 87.0° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 35.8° N, 59.2° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Nanafalia Formation (Wilcox Group), Selandian to Selandian (61.6 - 56.0 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• Environment from PBDB col 80386.
• Sand, dark-blueish-gray, massive, calcareous, glauconitic, fossiliferous. Lithology from PBDB col 80386.

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 91804: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 20.10.2009

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Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella multilira