AWa-3 (Shubuta): Priabonian, Alabama

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Cancellothyrididae
Terebratulina lachryma (Morton 1833)
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Chlamys spillmani
20 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Alabama County:Washington
Coordinates: 31.1° North, 87.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:31.6° North, 80.2° 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: 37.71 - 33.9 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 AWa-3
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:3552
Authorizer:M. Patzkowsky Enterer:K. Layou
Modifier:L. Eccles Research group:GCP,marine invertebrate
Created:1999-08-04 13:40:34 Last modified:2010-10-04 08:50:39
Access level:the public Released:1999-08-04 13:40:34
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]