South of Melvin: Priabonian, Alabama
collected by W. M. Furnish
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Cephalopoda
- Nautilida
- Aturiidae
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Aturia alabamensis
(Morton 1834)
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Alabama | County: | Choctaw |
| Coordinates: | 31.9° North, 88.5° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 32.4° North, 80.6° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| Stage: | Priabonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 3 |
| Key time interval: | Priabonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 37.71000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Yazoo |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | poorly lithified "mixed carbonate-siliciclastic" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | SUI |
| Collectors: | W. M. Furnish |
Metadata
| Database number: | 166098 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | K. Okamoto | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2015-02-04 18:36:10 | Last modified: | 2015-02-04 18:36:10 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2015-02-04 18:36:10 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 27587. | A. K. Miller. 1947. Tertiary nautiloids of the Americas. Geological Society of America Memoir 23:1-234 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |