Where: Wilcox County, Alabama (32.1° N, 87.3° W: paleocoordinates 35.0° N, 67.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Clayton Formation (Midway Group), Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone
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 98435: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 06.10.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Ostrea crenulimarginata Gabb 1860 oyster |