Where: Clarke County, Alabama (31.9° N, 87.8° W: paleocoordinates 33.9° N, 73.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Bashi Member (Hatchetigbee Bluff Formation), Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; unlithified, glauconitic, gray, green, calcareous sandstone
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 98293: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 30.09.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Saccella robusta pointed nut clam | |
Scaphopoda | |
Cadulus "sp. E" Philippi 1844 tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
Tornatellaea bella Conrad 1860 snail | |
Scaphander ligniticus snail |