Where: Wilcox County, Alabama (32.0° N, 87.3° W: paleocoordinates 34.6° N, 69.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Matthews Landing Marl Member (Porters Creek Formation), Selandian (61.6 - 59.2 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; unlithified, sandy claystone
Size class: mesofossils
Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ),
Primary reference: W. J. Foster, C. L. Garvie, A. M. Weiss, A. D. Muscente, M. Aberhan, J. W. Counts, and R. C. Martindale. 2020. Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals. Scientific Reports 10:2176 [A. Miller/J. Sessa/W. Foster]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 84471: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 24.10.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Cucullaea macrodonta clam | |
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Gastropoda | |
Lacunaria alabamiensis moon snail
Natica sp. Scopoli 1777 moon snail | |
Ranella showalteri snail | |
Priscoficus sp. Conrad 1866 fig shell | |
"Coronia mediavia" = Gemmula (Coronia)
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Orthosurcula longipersa ribbed mitre | |
"Latirus tortilis" = Pseudolatirus tortilis, Falsifusus harrisi
"Latirus tortilis" = Pseudolatirus tortilis Whitfield 1865 snail
Falsifusus harrisi snail | |
Strepsidura contorea true whelk | |
Levifusus sp. Conrad 1865 snail
Levifusus suteri snail | |
Scaphella showalteri, "Volutocorbis limopsis" = Athleta (Volutocorbis), "Volutocorbis rugatus" = Athleta (Volutocorbis)
Scaphella showalteri volute
"Volutocorbis limopsis" = Athleta (Volutocorbis) volute
"Volutocorbis rugatus" = Athleta (Volutocorbis) volute | |
"Turritella alabamiensis" = Mesalia alabamiensis
"Turritella alabamiensis" = Mesalia alabamiensis De Gregorio 1890 turret shell | |
Umbraculum sp. Schumacher 1817 snail | |
"Solariella alabamensis" = Toulminella alabamensis
"Solariella alabamensis" = Toulminella alabamensis Aldrich 1886 snail |