USGS Cenozoic locality 284. Prairie Creek: Danian, Alabama
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Crassatellidae
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Crassatella aquiana
Clark 1895
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Alabama | County: | Wilcox |
| Coordinates: | 32.0° North, 87.1° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 34.9° North, 67.1° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Paleocene |
| Stage: | Danian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 1 |
| Key time interval: | Danian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 66 - 61.6 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Midway | Formation: | Clayton | Member: | Pine Barren |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified not reported |
| 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: | 226575 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Wagner | Enterer: | P. Wagner |
| Modifier: | P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2022-07-15 22:19:19 | Last modified: | 2022-07-15 22:19:59 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2022-07-15 22:19:19 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 7416. | G. L. Wingard. 1993. A detailed taxonomy of Upper Cretaceous and Lower Tertiary Crassatellidae in the Eastern United States - an example of the nature of extinction at the boundary. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1535 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik] |