ADa-3 Tuschoma: Thanetian, Alabama
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Columastreidae
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Haimesastraea conferta
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17 specimens | |||||||||
original and current combination Haimesiastraea | ||||||||||
Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Dendrophylliidae
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Balanophyllia desmophyllum
Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Astrocoeniidae
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Madracis gregorioi
Vaughan 1900
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Ostreidae
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Ostrea sinuosa
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22 specimens | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Glycymerididae
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Glycymeris idonea
(Conrad 1865)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
original and current combination Axinea idonea | ||||||||||
Glycymeris idonea subsp. | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Carditidae
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? Venericardia greggiana
Dall 1903
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2 specimens | |||||||||
recombined as Venericardia (Baluchicardia) greggiana | ||||||||||
Venericardia aposmithi
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7 specimens | |||||||||
? Venericardia nanaplata
Gardner and Bowles 1939
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3 specimens | |||||||||
? Venericardia nanaplata nanna | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Crassatellidae
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Crassatella tumidula
Whitfield 1865
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3 specimens | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Clavatulidae
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Surcula nasuta
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1 specimen | |||||||||
synonym of Turricula | ||||||||||
Surcula nasuta subsp. | ||||||||||
Gastropoda
- Turritellidae
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Turritella mortoni
Conrad 1830
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28 specimens | |||||||||
recombined as Kapalmerella mortoni | ||||||||||
Turritella mortoni postmortoni | ||||||||||
Turritella spp.
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Selachii
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Selachii indet.
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3 specimens | |||||||||
shark teeth | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Alabama | County: | Dale |
Coordinates: | 31.3° North, 85.6° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 33.5° North, 68.5° 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 |
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: | 80672 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Miller | Enterer: | J. Sessa |
Modifier: | J. Sessa | Research group: | GCP,marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2008-05-03 18:14:11 | Last modified: | 2018-05-13 15:20:04 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2008-05-03 18:14:11 |
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] |