TU 78 - Claiborne Bluff [Gosport Sand] (Eocene of the United States)

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

• ENVIRONMENT: Carbonate.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Sand. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, on the basis of figured specimens.

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 Unpublished notes [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]more details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

• COVERAGE: Limited to taxa described in text, and subsequent publications. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication with modern nomenclature and species-resolution identifications.
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Murexiella (Murexiella) crispangula n. sp.2 Heilprin 1897 murex snail
Murexiella (Murexiella) mantelli n. sp.2 Conrad 1834 murex snail
Siphonochelus (Laevityphis) gracilis1 Conrad 1833 murex snail
Hexaplex (Hexaplex) engonatus n. sp.2 Conrad 1833 murex snail
Hexaplex (Hexaplex) vanuxemi2 Conrad 1865 murex snail