PRI 833: Ypresian, Alabama

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella gilberti
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Litorhadia elongatoidea
Yoldia (Calorhadia) pharcida (Dall 1898)
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
"Anodontia" augustana Gardner 1951
Harris 1919
Anodontia (Eophysema) ozarkana
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Vokesula aldrichi (Meyer 1885)
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Nemocardium harrisi
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Psammobiidae
Gari (Gobraeus) ozarkana
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellina subtriangularis
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Pitar (Pitar) nuttalliopsis
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Mactridae
Spisula parilis Conrad 1833
Spisula parilis bistriata
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Lirodiscus (Lirodiscus) smithvillensis Harris 1895
Lirodiscus (Lirodiscus) smithvillensis "var."
Bivalvia - Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Cucullaria ozarkensis
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Alabama County:Dale
Coordinates: 31.5° North, 85.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.2° North, 71.2° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
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 - 47.8 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Wilcox Formation:Hatchetigbee Bluff
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:98308
Authorizer:J. Sessa Enterer:L. Eccles
Modifier:J. Sessa Research group:GCP,marine invertebrate
Created:2010-09-30 08:22:40 Last modified:2018-05-13 17:03:57
Access level:group members Released:2015-09-30 08:22:40
Creative Commons license:CC BY
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:

35561 G. D. Harris. 1919. Pelecypoda of the St. Maurice and Claiborne stages. Bulletins of American Paleontology 6(31):1-208 [J. Sessa/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]