ADa-3 Tuschoma: Thanetian, Alabama

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Columastreidae
Haimesastraea conferta
17 specimens
original and current combination Haimesiastraea
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Balanophyllia desmophyllum Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
1 specimen
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Astrocoeniidae
Madracis gregorioi Vaughan 1900
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea sinuosa
22 specimens
Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae
Glycymeris idonea (Conrad 1865)
1 specimen
original and current combination Axinea idonea
Glycymeris idonea subsp.
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
? Venericardia greggiana Dall 1903
2 specimens
recombined as Venericardia (Baluchicardia) greggiana
Venericardia aposmithi
7 specimens
? Venericardia nanaplata Gardner and Bowles 1939
3 specimens
? Venericardia nanaplata nanna
Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae
Crassatella tumidula Whitfield 1865
3 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Clavatulidae
Surcula nasuta
1 specimen
synonym of Turricula
Surcula nasuta subsp.
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella mortoni Conrad 1830
28 specimens
recombined as Kapalmerella mortoni
Turritella mortoni postmortoni
Turritella spp.
1 specimen
Chondrichthyes - Selachii
Selachii indet.
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]