ACh-12 Tuscahoma: Thanetian, Alabama
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Gastropoda
- Turritellidae
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Turritella spp.
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12 specimens | |||||||||
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Turritella mortoni
Conrad 1830
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7 specimens | |||||||||
| recombined as Kapalmerella mortoni | ||||||||||
| Turritella mortoni postmortoni | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Ostreidae
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Ostrea sinuosa
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7 specimens | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Glycymerididae
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Glycymeris idonea
(Conrad 1865)
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3 specimens | |||||||||
| original and current combination Axinea idonea | ||||||||||
| Glycymeris idonea subsp. | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Crassatellidae
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Crassatella tumidula
Whitfield 1865
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5 specimens | |||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Selachii
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Selachii indet.
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5 specimens | |||||||||
| teeth | ||||||||||
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Dendrophylliidae
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Balanophyllia elaborata
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| or (Eupsammia) elaborata | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Alabama | County: | Choctaw |
| Coordinates: | 32.1° North, 88.2° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 34.7° North, 71.0° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Paleocene |
| Stage: | Thanetian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 1 |
| Key time interval: | Thanetian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 59.20000 - 56.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Wilcox | Formation: | Tuscahoma | Member: | Bells Landing Marl |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: None specific to this location. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | very fine,glauconitic unlithified sandstone |
| Lithology description: None specific to this locality. Lithology described from the type locality 8 miles below Lower Peach Tree on the Tombigbee River | |
| Environment: | shallow subtidal indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 80670 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Miller | Enterer: | J. Sessa |
| Modifier: | J. Sessa | Research group: | GCP,marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2008-05-03 17:11:25 | Last modified: | 2018-05-13 15:18:53 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2008-05-03 17:11:25 |
| 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] |
Secondary references:
| 34008 | L. C. Ivany, C. Pietsch, J. C. Handley, R. Lockwood, W. D. Allmon and J. A. Sessa. 2018. Little lasting impact of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum on shallow marine mollusk faunas. Science Advances [J. Sessa/J. Sessa/J. Sessa] | |
| 29915 | J. A. Sessa, T. J. Bralower, M. E. Patzkowsky, J. C. Handley, and L. C. Ivany. 2012. Environmental and biological controls on the diversity and ecology of Late Cretaceous through early Paleogene marine ecosystems in the US Gulf Coastal Plain. Paleobiology 38(2):218-239 [M. Patzkowsky/J. Sessa/J. Sessa] |