ACl-6 (Shubuta): Priabonian, Alabama

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Flabellidae
Flabellum sp. Lesson 1831
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Epitoniidae
Cirsotrema creolum
2 specimens
Cirsotremanassulum creolum
Cirsotrema ranellinum
7 specimens
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Acteonidae
Lithophysema sp. Stewart 1926
3 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Anomia sp. Linnaeus 1758
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Chlamys spillmani
361 specimens
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gigantostrea trigonalis (Conrad 1854)
11 specimens
Gryphaeostrea plicatella
4 specimens
Gryphaeostrea vomer plicatella
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Alectryonia vicksburgensis (Conrad 1848)
34 specimens
recombined as Lopha (Lopha) vicksburgensis
unclassified
Arthropoda indet. Latreille 1829
1 specimen
crab claw
Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Schizasteridae
Schizaster armiger Clark and Twitchell 1915
64 specimens
recombined as Paraster armiger
Echinoidea - Clypeasteroida - Neolaganidae
Weisbordella johnsoni
3 specimens
Laganum floridanum Clark and Twitchell 1915
3 specimens
recombined as Durhamella floridanum
unclassified
Vertebrata indet. Lamarck 1801
5 specimens
fish vertebra
Vertebrata indet. Lamarck 1801
6 specimens
ray dental plate
Vertebrata indet. Lamarck 1801
8 specimens
shark teeth
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Alabama County:Clarke
Coordinates: 31.7° North, 87.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.1° North, 79.9° 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 *Local age/stage:Ludian
Key time interval:Priabonian
Age range of interval:38.00000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Yazoo Clay Member:Shubuta
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: supposedly "Ludian"; stage assignment based on Baum et al. 1994; Section ACl-6
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: unlithified calcareous "shale"
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:3548
Authorizer:M. Patzkowsky Enterer:K. Layou
Modifier:L. Eccles Research group:GCP,marine invertebrate
Created:1999-08-04 13:07:12 Last modified:2010-10-04 08:47:04
Access level:the public Released:1999-08-04 13:07:12
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]