Greggs Landing, Bells Landing Marl: Thanetian, Alabama

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Columastreidae
Haimesiastraea conferta n. gen., n. sp. Vaughan 1900
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Eupsammia elaborata
synonym of Balanophyllia
Balanophyllia desmophyllum Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Alabama County:Monroe
Coordinates: 31.8° North, 87.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.3° North, 70.3° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
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
Member:Bells Landing Marl
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Secondary lithology: marl
Environment:coastal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:87828
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:U. Smith Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-03-26 03:10:34 Last modified:2010-11-03 19:24:51
Access level:authorizer only Released:2009-06-26 03:10:34
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
13490. T. W. Vaughan. 1900. The Eocene and lower Oligocene coral faunas of the United States with descriptions of a few doubtfully Cretaceous species. United States Geological Survey, Monograph 39:1-263 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]