M 667 (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Monroe County, Alabama (31.8° N, 87.5° W: paleocoordinates 34.4° N, 70.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Greggs Landing Marl Member (Tuscahoma Formation), Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; unlithified, massive, fine-grained, medium, glauconitic, gray, green, silty, calcareous sandstone

• Environment from PBDB 80495.
• Greggs Landing Marl Member is sand, grayish-green, weathers to brown, massive, fine- to medium grained, silty, calcareous, glauconitic, very fossiliferous. Lithology from PBDB 80495.

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 98371: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 04.10.2010

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Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
cf. Natica aperta
 Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Palaeorhaphis pergracilis
 Neogastropoda - Clavatulidae
"Surcula nasuta" = Turricula
"Surcula nasuta" = Turricula snail