Where: Marengo County, Alabama (32.1° N, 88.0° W: paleocoordinates 34.7° N, 70.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Tuscahoma Formation (Wilcox Group), Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)
• member-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 98331: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 01.10.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Polinices sp. Monfort 1810 moon snail | |
Levifusus "sp. J" Conrad 1865 snail |