M 921 (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Marengo County, Alabama (32.1° N, 88.0° W: paleocoordinates 34.2° N, 73.5° 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, 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 98332: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 01.10.2010

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Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Clavilithes "sp. A"
Clavilithes "sp. A" Swainson 1840 snail