ACh-5 Hatchetigbee: Ypresian, Alabama

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Balanophyllia haleana (Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848)
6 specimens
Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium microstria Heilprin 1880
12 specimens
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Acteonidae
Tornatellaea bella Conrad 1860
17 specimens
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Architectonicidae
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
36 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
1 specimen
7 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Costellariidae
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turridae
1 specimen
Coronia mediavia var.
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
cf. Bullia altilis (Conrad 1832)
11 specimens
cf. Bullia altilis subglobosa
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
3 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
7 specimens
Pseudoliva vetusta (Conrad 1833)
3 specimens
Pseudoliva vetusta forma
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
Levifusus sp. Conrad 1865
1 specimen
"Levifusus trabeatus"
Gastropoda - Rostellariidae
24 specimens
Gastropoda - Naticidae
1 specimen
Sinum sp. Röding 1798
3 specimens
"Sinum bilix"
Euspira sabina (Palmer 1937)
11 specimens
"Natica" sp. Scopoli 1777
1 specimen
Euspira marylandica (Conrad 1865)
2 specimens
Euspira marylandica var.
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
1 specimen
17 specimens
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
6 individuals
6 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
3 specimens
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Vokesula aldrichi (Meyer 1885)
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
10 specimens
unclassified
3 specimens
Lyrodiscus smithvillensis "var."
Pisces
Vertebra
Chondrichthyes - Selachii
teeth
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Alabama County:Choctaw
Coordinates: 32.1° North, 88.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.8° North, 64.6° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Eocene
Stage: Ypresian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 2
Key time interval: Ypresian
Age range of interval: 56 - 47.8 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Wilcox Formation:Hatchetigbee Bluff Member:Bashi
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: None.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:fine,glauconitic,gray unlithified calcareous sandstone
Lithology description: None for this specific site. Lithology description from ACh-4 Hatchetigbee.
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:80767
Authorizer:A. Miller Enterer:J. Sessa
Modifier:J. Sessa Research group:GCP,marine invertebrate
Created:2008-05-06 19:07:38 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2008-05-06 19:07:38
Creative Commons license:CC0
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]