Where: Monroe County, Alabama (31.5° N, 87.5° W: paleocoordinates 32.7° N, 76.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: lower Lisbon Member (Lisbon Formation), Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)

• We question that this is upper Lisbon, think lower Lisbon (LCI & WDA)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified, glauconitic, silty, calcareous sandstone

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: Collected by G.D. Harris, R. Flowr and K.V.W. Palmer, Paleontological Research Inst. Exp. 1935. Same as Locality 734. Field notebook No. 38.

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 92351: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 08.11.2009

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