Where: Covington County, Alabama (31.3° N, 86.5° W: paleocoordinates 32.8° N, 73.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Tallahatta Formation), Ypresian to Ypresian (56.0 - 41.3 Ma)

• None specific to this site.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; unlithified, gray, green sandstone

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 81189: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 09.06.2008, edited by Mark Uhen

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