ACl-4 (Cocoa Sand): Priabonian, Alabama
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
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Arthopoda indet.
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1 specimen | |||||||||
crab carapace | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Ostreidae
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Ostrea sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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1 specimen | |||||||||
originally entered as "Ostrea spp." | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Pectinidae
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Chlamys spillmani
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10 specimens | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Carditidae
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Venericardia sp.
Lamarck 1801
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1 specimen | |||||||||
originally entered as "Venericardia spp." | ||||||||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Conidae
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Conus tortilis
(Conrad 1854)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
synonym of Conus sauridens | ||||||||||
Echinoidea
- Clypeasteroida
- Protoscutellidae
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Periarchus pileussinensis
(Ravenel 1844)
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8 specimens | |||||||||
Periarchus lyelli pileussinensis | ||||||||||
Echinoidea
- Spatangoida
- Brissidae
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Plagiobrissus dixie
Cooke 1942
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Echinoidea
- Spatangoida
- Schizasteridae
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Schizaster armiger
Clark and Twitchell 1915
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1 specimen | |||||||||
recombined as Paraster armiger | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Alabama | County: | Clarke |
Coordinates: | 31.5° North, 87.8° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 31.9° North, 80.0° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
Stage: | Priabonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 3 |
*Period: | Tertiary | ||
Key time interval: | Priabonian | ||
Age range of interval: | 38.00000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Geological group: | Jackson | Formation: | Yazoo Clay | Member: | Cocoa Sand |
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: supposedly "Bartonian"; stage assignment based on Baum et al. 1994; Section ACl-4 |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | unlithified sandstone |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 3540 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Patzkowsky | Enterer: | K. Layou |
Modifier: | L. Eccles | Research group: | GCP,marine invertebrate |
Created: | 1999-08-04 12:17:20 | Last modified: | 2010-10-04 08:42:05 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1999-08-04 12:17:20 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
124. | L. D. Toulmin. 1977. Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region. Geological Survey of Alabama, Monograph 13(1):1-602 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou/P. Mannion] |