Where: Dale County, Alabama (31.5° N, 85.6° W: paleocoordinates 33.2° N, 71.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Hatchetigbee Bluff Formation (Wilcox Group), Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 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 98308: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 30.09.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Turritella gilberti turret shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Yoldia (Calorhadia) pharcida Dall 1898 pointed nut clam
Litorhadia elongatoidea pointed nut clam | |
Vokesula aldrichi Meyer 1885 clam | |
Pitar (Pitar) nuttalliopsis venus clam | |
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Tellina subtriangularis tellin clam | |
Nemocardium harrisi cockle | |
Anodontia (Eophysema) ozarkana, ""Anodontia" augustana" = Hadralucina augustana
""Anodontia" augustana" = Hadralucina augustana Gardner 1951 clam | |
Lirodiscus (Lirodiscus) smithvillensis Harris 1895 clam Lirodiscus (Lirodiscus) smithvillensis "var."
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