PRI 2200 (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Clarke County, Alabama (32.0° N, 88.1° W: paleocoordinates 34.0° N, 73.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bashi Member (Hatchetigbee Bluff Formation), Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; unlithified, glauconitic, argillaceous, calcareous sandstone

• Environment from PBDB col 90038
• unlithified glaucontic calcareous clayey sand-Lithology from PBDB col 90038

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 98276: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 29.09.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Acteonidae
Tornatellaea bella Conrad 1860 snail
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
 Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
Cornulina minax Solander 1766 snail
Cornulina minax compressa
 Sorbeoconcha - Cassidae
Bivalvia
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
Vokesula aldrichi Meyer 1885 clam
 Cardiida - Veneridae
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Pycnodonta sylvaerupis" = Pycnodonte
"Pycnodonta sylvaerupis" = Pycnodonte oyster