PRI 2189, Hatchetigbee Bluff: Ypresian, Alabama

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium microstria Heilprin 1880
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Pyramidellidae
Gastropoda - Ampullinidae
Ampullella recurva "var."
Gastropoda - Vitrinellidae
Cyclostremiscus informal n. sp. Pilsbry and Olsson 1945
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Athleta clarae (Harris 1899)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Pseudoliva vetusta (Conrad 1833)
Pseudoliva vetusta forma
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turridae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Mitridae
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Euspira sabina (Palmer 1937)
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Trapezidae
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Ungulinidae
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Vokesula aldrichi (Meyer 1885)
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Plicatulidae
Plicatula filamentosa (Conrad 1833)
Plicatula filamentosa "var." A
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Spondylidae
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Astrocoeniidae
Dockery 1980
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Alabama County:Washington
Coordinates: 31.7° North, 88.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.4° North, 64.6° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Eocene
Stage: Ypresian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 2
Key time interval: Ypresian
Age range of interval: 56 - 48.07 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Wilcox Formation:Hatchetigbee Bluff Member:upper Hatchetigbee Bluff
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray unlithified silty claystone
Lithology description: Unlithified gray silty sandy clay. Lithology from 90143.
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Geology comments: Environment from 90143.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:90609
Authorizer:J. Sessa Enterer:L. Eccles
Modifier:J. Sessa Research group:GCP,marine invertebrate
Created:2009-08-10 14:29:44 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:group members Released:2014-08-10 14:29:44
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
11845. K. V. Palmer and D. C. Brann. 1965. Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Peteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda. Bulletins of American Paleontology 48:1-471 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

11842 D. T. Dockery. 1980. Invertebrate Macropaleontolgy of the Clarke County Mississippi Area. Bulletin - Mississippi Geological, Economic and Topographic Survey 122 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/L. Eccles]
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]
11846 K. V. Palmer and D. C. Brann. 1966. Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene Mollusks of the Southern and Eastern United States Part II. Gastropoda. Bulletins of American Paleontology 48:471-1057 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/J. Sessa]