Also known as Water Valley
Where: Choctaw County, Alabama (31.9° N, 88.4° W: paleocoordinates 32.4° N, 80.6° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Cocoa Sand Member (Yazoo Formation), Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)
• "Eocene" (the Cocoa Sand is Priabonian)
•the section is "about 20 feet thick" and the sample is from "66' above bridge near Water Valley"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, fine-grained, glauconitic, quartzose, shelly/skeletal, gray, argillaceous lithology not reported
Size class: microfossils
Collected by P. R. Krutak, O. Brown, O. Buis, C. Jones in 1947
• Lousiana State University collection
Primary reference: P. R. Krutak. 1961. Jackson Eocene Ostracoda from the Cocoa Sand of Alabama. Journal of Paleontology 35(4):769-788 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 94156: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 10.02.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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