ACov-12 Tallahatta: Ypresian - Lutetian, Alabama

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
23 specimens
63 specimens
45 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Anomia lisbonensis Aldrich 1886
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Venericardia spp. Lamarck 1801
9 specimens
3 specimens
22 specimens
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
2 specimens
4 specimens
Bivalvia - Solenida - Solenidae
3 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellina sp. Linnaeus 1758
1 specimen
Macoma sp. Leach 1819
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
4 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Mactridae
? Spisula sp. Gray 1837
2 specimens
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
3 specimens
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
6 specimens
Gastropoda - Naticidae
"Natica" sp. Scopoli 1777
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Rostellariidae
Calyptraphorus sp. Conrad 1857
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Athleta petrosus (Conrad 1833)
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Alabama County:Covington
Coordinates: 31.3° North, 86.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.6° North, 64.8° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Eocene
Stage: Ypresian - Lutetian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 2
Key time interval: Ypresian - Lutetian
Age range of interval: 56 - 41.03 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Claiborne Formation:Tallahatta Member:Upper
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: None.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:very fine,gray,green lithified claystone
Secondary lithology:glauconitic unlithified calcareous sandstone
Lithology description: None.
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:81191
Authorizer:A. Miller Enterer:J. Sessa
Modifier:U. Smith Research group:GCP,marine invertebrate
Created:2008-06-09 11:06:14 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2008-06-09 11:06:14
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:

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]