AGe-2: Lutetian, Alabama

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
20 specimens
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
3 specimens
Turritella carinata palmerae
1 specimen
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Ampullinidae
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
7 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turridae
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Architectonicidae
1 specimen
Architectonica meekana splendida
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Alabama County:Geneva
Coordinates: 31.0° North, 85.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.3° North, 66.2° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Eocene
Stage: Lutetian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 2
Key time interval: Lutetian
Age range of interval: 48.07 - 41.03 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Claiborne Formation:Lisbon Member:Upper
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: None.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:glauconitic,gray,blue 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:81257
Authorizer:A. Miller Enterer:J. Sessa
Modifier:J. Sessa Research group:GCP,marine invertebrate
Created:2008-06-14 18:48:11 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2008-06-14 18:48:11
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]