Also known as Unit 3, Glendon Limestone Member (Byram Formation), Randons Creek

Where: Monroeville County, Alabama (31.4° N, 87.6° W: paleocoordinates 31.8° N, 82.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Glendon Member (Byram Formation), Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)

• Unit 4 is a limestone, referred to as Glendon Limestone Member of the Byram Formation and is 14 ft thick. It underlies the 5.5 ft thick Marl member and overlies the 7 ft thick lower limestone unit of the Glendon Limestone member of the Byram Formation. The Byram Formation overlies the 1 ft + thick Marianna Limestone.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray, white limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Unknown repository. Page 86

Primary reference: J. B. Ivey. 1957. Geology and ground water in the Monroeville area, Alabama. Geological Survey of Alabama Bulletin 66 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 42161: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 25.07.2004

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