Also known as Hwy 231 Railroad cut

Where: Dale County, Alabama (31.5° N, 85.6° W: paleocoordinates 33.2° N, 71.2° W)

When: Bashi Marl Member (Hatchetigbee Formation), Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; poorly lithified, calcareous sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Christopher Garvie

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: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 205409: authorized by William Foster, entered by William Foster on 15.10.2019

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