Where: Butler County, Alabama (33.1° N, 88.1° W: paleocoordinates 36.2° N, 67.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: lower Member (Porters Creek Formation), Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)
• Local section name: ABu-9
•Lower Porters Creek=Danian (JAS 14Oct2010)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; shale
Size class: mesofossils
Primary reference: L. D. Toulmin. 1977. Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region. Geological Survey of Alabama, Monograph 13(1):1-602 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 2856: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 21.07.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Gitolampas georgiensis sea urchin | |
Gastropoda | |
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