Nanafalia Bluff (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Marengo County, Alabama (32.1° N, 88.0° W: paleocoordinates 35.0° N, 69.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Nanafalia Formation (Chickasaw Group), Paleocene (66.0 - 56.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified siliciclastic sediments

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 87826: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.03.2009

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Balanophyllia desmophyllum Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
n. var. microcostata