Where: Escambria County, Alabama (31.3° N, 86.8° W: paleocoordinates 31.6° N, 79.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Pachuta Marl Member (Yazoo Clay Formation), Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)
• supposedly "Bartonian"; stage assignment based on Baum et al. 1994; Section AEs-3
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified, calcareous marl
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 3545: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 04.08.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
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Bivalvia | |
Chlamys spillmani scallop | |
Gigantostrea trigonalis Conrad 1854 oyster | |
Anthozoa | |
Flabellum sp. Lesson 1831 stony coral |