Where: Monroe County, Alabama (31.5° N, 87.5° W: paleocoordinates 32.1° N, 78.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Gosport Sand Formation (Claiborne Group), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Gosport Sand, for which lithostratigraphic relations are not discussed. AGE: Bartonian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within formation.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original aragonite
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 Unpublished notes [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]more details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 92698: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 24.11.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Murexiella (Murexiella) crispangula n. sp.2, Murexiella (Murexiella) mantelli n. sp.2, Siphonochelus (Laevityphis) gracilis1, Hexaplex (Hexaplex) engonatus n. sp.2, Hexaplex (Hexaplex) vanuxemi2
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