Where: Sumter County, Alabama (32.4° N, 88.0° W: paleocoordinates 35.1° N, 69.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Naheola Formation (Midway Group), Selandian (61.6 - 59.2 Ma)
• Porters Creek AKA Sucarnoochee
• 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 98384: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 05.10.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Narona quercollis snail | |
Agaronia mediavia snail |