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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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Aturiidae
Aturia alabamensis Morton 1834 nautiloid