Where: Choctaw County, Alabama (32.1° N, 88.1° W: paleocoordinates 34.7° N, 70.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tuscahoma Formation (Wilcox Group), Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)

• Lower Eocene,; Middle Wilcox Gr; Tuscahoma Fm, Bells Landing OR Greggs Landing - NOTE: this station cannot be refined further (JAS)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

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 98257: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 28.09.2010

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