Hatchetigbee Bluff (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Washington County, Alabama (31.4° N, 88.2° W: paleocoordinates 33.6° N, 73.4° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Bash Marl Member (Hatchetigbee Formation), Wasatchian (55.8 - 50.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: M. A. Sheldon. 1997. First occurrence of early Eocene mammal in Alabama is the easternmost occurrence of Coryphodon from the Bashi Formation, Wasatchian mammal age. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 29(6):105 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details

PaleoDB collection 15645: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 19.05.2000, edited by Mark Uhen

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Taxonomic list

• see Red Hot
Mammalia
 Cimolesta - Coryphodontidae
Coryphodon sp. Owen 1845 pantodont
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
? Crassostrea sp. Sacco 1897 oyster
 Carditida - Carditidae
Venericardia hatcheplata Gardner and Bowles 1939 clam