Where: Clarke County, Alabama (31.8° N, 88.1° W: paleocoordinates 33.0° N, 76.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Lisbon Formation), Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)

• Beds of "Ostrea" sellaeformis zone are exposed. Bed 5 of the geologic section described by Smith and Johnson (1887) p.32 contains large fauna.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; unlithified, glauconitic, gray, blue, calcareous sandstone

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: J. A. Ebersole, D. J. Cicimurri, and G. L. Stringer. 2019. Taxonomy and biostratigraphy of the elasmobranchs and bony fishes (Chondrichthyes and Osteichthyes) of the lower-to-middle Eocene (Ypresian to Bartonian) Claiborne Group in Alabama, USA, including an analysis of otoliths. European Journal of Taxonomy 585:1-274 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 209518: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 04.05.2020

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