South of Melvin (Eocene of the United States)
Where: Choctaw County, Alabama (31.9° N, 88.5° W: paleocoordinates 32.4° N, 80.6° W)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Yazoo Formation, Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by W. M. Furnish; reposited in the SUI
Primary reference: A. K. Miller. 1947. Tertiary nautiloids of the Americas. Geological Society of America Memoir 23:1-234 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 166098: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Kristina Okamoto on 04.02.2015
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Cephalopoda | |
Aturia alabamensis Morton 1834 nautiloid |