ABu-9 (Porters Creek): Danian, Alabama

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea - Cassiduloida
Gitolampas georgiensis
5 specimens
Gastropoda - Rostellariidae
Calyptraphorus sp. Conrad 1857
1 specimen
originally entered as "Calyptraphorus spp."
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Alabama County:Butler
Coordinates: 33.1° North, 88.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.2° North, 67.8° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Paleocene
Stage:Danian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 1
*Period:Tertiary *Local age/stage:Landenian
Key time interval:Danian
Age range of interval:66.00000 - 61.60000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Porters Creek Member:lower
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Local section name: ABu-9
Lower Porters Creek=Danian (JAS 14Oct2010)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "shale"
Environment:coastal 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:2856
Authorizer:M. Patzkowsky Enterer:K. Layou
Modifier:L. Eccles Research group:GCP,marine invertebrate
Created:1999-07-21 12:34:56 Last modified:2011-09-30 09:59:12
Access level:the public Released:1999-07-21 12:34:56
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:

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]