AMo-7 Hatchetigbee: Ypresian, Alabama
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Scaphopoda
- Dentaliida
- Dentaliidae
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Dentalium microstria
Heilprin 1880
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2 specimens | ||||||
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Bivalvia
- Nuculanida
- Nuculanidae
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Calorhadia pharcida
(Dall 1898)
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Veneridae
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Macrocallista sylvaerupis
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5 specimens | ||||||
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Pitar nuttalliopsis
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3 specimens | ||||||
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Ostreidae
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? Odontogryphaea informal sp. A
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9 specimens | ||||||
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Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Acteonidae
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Tornatellaea bella
Conrad 1860
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Gastropoda
- Naticidae
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? Euspira sabina
(Palmer 1937)
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4 specimens | ||||||
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? Sigatica clarkeana
(Aldrich 1887)
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3 specimens | ||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Volutidae
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Athleta tuomeyi
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2 specimens | ||||||
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Gastropoda
- Rostellariidae
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Calyptraphorus trinodiferus
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7 specimens | ||||||
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Gastropoda
- Turritellidae
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Turritella gilberti
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9 specimens | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Alabama | County: | Monroe |
| Coordinates: | 31.8° North, 87.4° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 33.8° North, 72.9° West | ||||
| 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 unlithified sandy,calcareous marl |
| Lithology description: None specific to this site. Lithology description for the Hatchetigbee in general. | |
| 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: | 80788 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Miller | Enterer: | J. Sessa |
| Modifier: | J. Sessa | Research group: | GCP,marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2008-05-08 10:42:38 | Last modified: | 2018-05-13 15:36:12 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2008-05-08 10:42:38 |
| 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:
| 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] |