Where: Wilcox County, Alabama (32.0° N, 87.1° W: paleocoordinates 34.7° N, 68.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Sucarnochee Clay Formation (Midway Group), Paleocene (66.0 - 56.0 Ma)
• Sucarnochee or Black Bluff Beds
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: T. W. Vaughan. 1900. The Eocene and lower Oligocene coral faunas of the United States with descriptions of a few doubtfully Cretaceous species. United States Geological Survey, Monograph 39:1-263 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 87816: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 25.03.2009, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Malacostraca | |
"Symnista bidentata n. sp." = Hemioon bidentata
"Symnista bidentata n. sp." = Hemioon bidentata Rathbun 1935 crab | |
Symethis johnsoni n. sp., "Raninoides ovalis n. sp." = Laeviranina ovalis
Symethis johnsoni n. sp. Rathbun 1935 crab
"Raninoides ovalis n. sp." = Laeviranina ovalis Rathbun 1935 crab | |
| Anthozoa | |
"Trochocyathus hyatti" = Trochocyathus lakii
"Trochocyathus hyatti" = Trochocyathus lakii Duncan 1880 stony coral | |
Flabellum conoideum n. sp.
Flabellum conoideum n. sp. Vaughan 1900 stony coral | |