PRI 864: Ypresian, Alabama

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchiata - Cylichnidae
Abderospira sabina Palmer 1937
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Euspira sabina (Palmer 1937)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turridae
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Alabama County:Clarke
Coordinates: 31.9° North, 87.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.5° North, 64.2° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Eocene
Stage: Ypresian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 2
Key time interval: Ypresian
Age range of interval: 56 - 48.07 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Wilcox Formation:Hatchetigbee Bluff Member:Bashi
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:glauconitic unlithified argillaceous,calcareous sandstone
Lithology description: unlithified glaucontic calcareous clayey sand-Lithology from PBDB col 90038
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Geology comments: Environment from PBDB col 90038
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:92353
Authorizer:J. Sessa Enterer:L. Eccles
Modifier:J. Sessa Research group:GCP,marine invertebrate
Created:2009-11-08 19:42:54 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:group members Released:2014-11-08 19:42:54
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:

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]
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]