Where: Wilcox County, Alabama (32.0° N, 87.6° W: paleocoordinates 34.7° N, 69.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Matthews Landing Marl Member (Porters Creek Formation), Selandian (61.6 - 59.2 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Matthews Landing Marl, for which lithostratigraphic relations are not discussed. AGE: Early-Middle Paleocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within formation.NOTE: the Matthews Landing Marl is Selandian (JAS)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; marl
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Vokes & Vokes; reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: E. Vokes and H. Vokes. REPOSITORY: USNM.
Primary reference: E. H. Vokes and H. E. Vokes. 2000. Catalogue of Tulane University fossil localities. Unpublished notes [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 92602: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 18.11.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Poirieria (Paziella) harrisi Vokes 1970 murex snail
Pterynotus (Pterynotus) matthewsensis Aldrich 1886 mustached bat |