ABu-9 (Porters Creek) (Paleocene of the United States)

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

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Cassiduloida -
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Rostellariidae
Calyptraphorus sp. Conrad 1857 snail
originally entered as "Calyptraphorus spp."