ACl-10 (Shubuta): Priabonian, Alabama
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Echinoidea
- Spatangoida
- Schizasteridae
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Schizaster armiger
Clark and Twitchell 1915
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10 specimens | |||||||||
| recombined as Paraster armiger | ||||||||||
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Echinoidea
- Spatangoida
- Brissidae
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Macropneustes mortoni
(Conrad 1850)
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3 specimens | |||||||||
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Echinoidea
- Cidaroida
- Cidaridae
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Cidaris pratti
Clark and Twitchell 1915
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3 specimens | |||||||||
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unclassified
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Vertebrata indet.
Lamarck 1801
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2 specimens | |||||||||
| shark teeth | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Epitoniidae
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Cirsotrema ranellinum
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Conidae
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Conus tortilis
(Conrad 1854)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| synonym of Conus sauridens | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Pectinidae
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Chlamys danvillensis
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Chlamys spillmani
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15 specimens | |||||||||
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Chlamys sp.
Röding 1798
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| originally entered as "Chlamys spp." | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Ostreidae
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Alectryonia vicksburgensis
(Conrad 1848)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| recombined as Lopha (Lopha) vicksburgensis | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Gryphaeidae
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Gryphaeostrea plicatella
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6 specimens | |||||||||
| Gryphaeostrea vomer plicatella | ||||||||||
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Rhynchonellata
- Terebratulida
- Cancellothyrididae
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Terebratulina lachryma
(Morton 1833)
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66 specimens | |||||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Flabellidae
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Flabellum sp.
Lesson 1831
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4 specimens | |||||||||
| 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: | 37.71000 - 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-10 | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | glauconitic,yellow unlithified argillaceous "carbonate" |
| 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: | 3549 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Patzkowsky | Enterer: | K. Layou |
| Modifier: | L. Eccles | Research group: | GCP,marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 1999-08-04 13:18:31 | Last modified: | 2010-10-04 08:47:53 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1999-08-04 13:18:31 |
| 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] |