Where: Choctaw 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, argillaceous, 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 92269: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 04.11.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Trigonostoma marieanum snail
Cancelrana lanceolata snail | |
"Volvariella aldrichi" = Volvaria (Volvariella)
"Volvariella aldrichi" = Volvaria (Volvariella) mitre shell | |
Microdrillia rostratula snail
Microdrillia turriculata snail | |
Levifusus "sp. J" Conrad 1865 snail
? Levifusus pagodiformis Heilprin 1881 snail | |
Sigatica clarkeana Aldrich 1887 moon snail | |
Solariorbis liniferus snail | |
"Pseudomalaxis" verrilli snail | |
Crenilabium cossmanni snail | |
Gegania sp. Jeffreys 1884 snail
Mathilda leana snail | |
Limacina choctavensis snail
Limacina elongatoidea snail | |
Philine alabamensis snail
Abderospira sabina Palmer 1937 snail | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium microstria Heilprin 1880 tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Chlamys choctavensis Aldrich 1895 scallop | |
Brachidontes alabamensis Aldrich 1895 mussel | |
Bornia prima clam | |
Scintilla clarkeana Aldrich 1897 clam | |
Sportella oblonga Conrad 1848 clam | |
Nuculana marieana pointed nut clam | |
Nucula "sp. C" Lamarck 1799 nut clam |