Tuscahoma Landing [Hatchetigbee Bluff]: Ypresian, Alabama
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Astrocoeniidae
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Madracis gregorioi
Vaughan 1900
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Alabama | County: | Choctaw |
| Coordinates: | 32.1° North, 88.1° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 34.1° North, 73.6° 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
| Formation: | Hatchetigbee Bluff | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: From upper member. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | claystone |
| Secondary lithology: | siltstone |
| Environment: | coastal indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 87835 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | U. Merkel |
| Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2009-03-26 07:04:48 | Last modified: | 2014-05-05 08:26:51 |
| Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2009-06-26 07:04:48 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 13490. | T. W. Vaughan. 1900. The Eocene and lower Oligocene coral faunas of the United States with descriptions of a few doubtfully Cretaceous species. United States Geological Survey, Monograph 39:1-263 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling] |