M 6 (Oligocene of the United States)

Where: Choctaw County, Alabama (31.8° N, 88.3° W: paleocoordinates 32.1° N, 81.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Red Bluff Formation (Vicksburg Group), Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)

• 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 98260: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 28.09.2010

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Spondylus (Spondylus) dumosus" = Spondylus dumosus, "Chlamys (Aequipecten) cocoana" = Aequipecten
"Spondylus (Spondylus) dumosus" = Spondylus dumosus Morton 1834 scallop
"Chlamys (Aequipecten) cocoana" = Aequipecten scallop