Where: Wilcox County, Alabama (31.9° N, 87.1° W: paleocoordinates 34.5° N, 69.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Matthews Landing Marl Member (Porters Creek Formation), Selandian (61.6 - 59.2 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 98418: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 06.10.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Turritella aldrichi turret shell | |
Priscoficus (Fulguroficus) spp. Conrad 1866 fig shell | |
Pterynotus (Pterynotus) matthewsensis Aldrich 1886 mustached bat | |
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"Latirus tortilis" = Pseudolatirus tortilis, cf. Papillina mohri
"Latirus tortilis" = Pseudolatirus tortilis Whitfield 1865 snail
cf. Papillina mohri snail | |
""Pleurotoma" "sp. C"" = Turris
""Pleurotoma" "sp. C"" = Turris Röding 1798 turrid | |
Orthosurcula adeona ribbed mitre | |
"Natica (Naticarius) reversa" = Naticarius
"Natica (Naticarius) reversa" = Naticarius moon snail |