PRI 1057: Bartonian, Alabama

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Orbituliporidae
Dockery 1980
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchiata - Cylichnidae
Abderospira aldrichi (Langdon 1886)
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Yoldiidae
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Kelliellidae
Alveinus minutus Conrad 1865
Dockery 1980
Bivalvia - Thraciida - Periplomatidae
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Alabama County:Washington
Coordinates: 31.5° North, 88.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.2° North, 70.8° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Eocene
Stage: Bartonian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 3
Key time interval: Bartonian
Age range of interval: 41.03 - 37.71 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Claiborne Formation:Gosport Sand
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Stratigraphy comments: Zone B of Gardener, Oct. 3, 1940
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:glauconitic,shelly/skeletal unlithified calcareous sandstone
Lithology description: the gosport sand … consists of 2-10m of extremely fossiliferous, unconsolidated, glauconitic, calcareous quartz sand, with occasional indurated ledges and thin lenses of carbonaceous shale and lignite. Lithology from PBDB col 5311.
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:90474
Authorizer:J. Sessa Enterer:L. Eccles
Modifier:L. Eccles Research group:GCP,marine invertebrate
Created:2009-07-29 12:29:23 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:group members Released:2014-07-29 12:29:23
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
11845. K. V. Palmer and D. C. Brann. 1965. Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Peteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda. Bulletins of American Paleontology 48:1-471 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

11842 D. T. Dockery. 1980. Invertebrate Macropaleontolgy of the Clarke County Mississippi Area. Bulletin - Mississippi Geological, Economic and Topographic Survey 122 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/L. Eccles]
11846 K. V. Palmer and D. C. Brann. 1966. Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene Mollusks of the Southern and Eastern United States Part II. Gastropoda. Bulletins of American Paleontology 48:471-1057 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/J. Sessa]