M 430 (Eocene of the United States)

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

• Environment from PBDB col 80780
• Lithology from PBDB col # 80780 - glauconitic,gray,green unlithified sandy,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

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Saccella robusta pointed nut clam
Scaphopoda
 Gadilida - Gadilidae
Cadulus "sp. E" Philippi 1844 tusk shell
Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Acteonidae
Tornatellaea bella Conrad 1860 snail
 Opisthobranchia - Cylichnidae