USGS Loc. 10050 - Gainestown [Chickasawhay Lmst]: Late/Upper Oligocene, Alabama
collected by Cook, Gardner

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Chlamys (Plagioctenium) howei Mansfield 1940
Mansfield 1940
Chlamys aff. duplex (Cooke 1919)
Mansfield 1940
original and current combination Pecten (Patinopecten) duplex
Chlamys (Plagioctenium) gainestownensis n. sp. Mansfield 1940
Mansfield 1940
Chlamys (Aequipecten) waynensis Mansfield 1940
Mansfield 1940
Echinoidea - Echinolampadoida - Echinolampadidae
Echinolampas aldrichi n. sp. Clark and Twitchell 1915
Clark and Twitchell 1915
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Alabama County:Clarke
Coordinates: 31.4° North, 87.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:31.8° North, 82.3° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Oligocene
Stage:Chattian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 4
Key time interval:Late/Upper Oligocene
Age range of interval:28.40000 - 23.03000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Chickasawhay
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: poorly lithified "limestone"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:surface (float),surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:Cook, Gardner
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: C.W. Cooke, J. Gardner. REPOSITORY: USNM.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Limited to echinoidea, but molluscs are probably present. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication with species-resolution identifications, but somewhat antiquated nomenclature.
Metadata
Database number:155957
Authorizer:A. Hendy, M. Uhen Enterer:A. Hendy, M. Uhen
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2014-05-04 21:27:37 Last modified:2014-05-04 21:50:38
Access level:the public Released:2014-11-04 21:27:37
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

32912. C. W. Cooke. 1959. Cenozoic echinoids of eastern United States. United States Geological Survey Professional Papers 321:1-106 [L. Villier/L. Villier/M. Hopkins]

Secondary references:

16640 W. B. Clark and M. W. Twitchell. 1915. The Mesozoic and Cenozoic Echinodermata of the United States. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 54:1-341 [L. Villier/J. Millet/M. Uhen]
70434 W. C. Mansfield. 1940. Mollusks of the Chickasawhay Marl. Journal of Paleontology 14(3):171-226 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]