Greggs Landing, Greggs Landing Marl (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Monroe County, Alabama (31.8° N, 87.5° W: paleocoordinates 34.3° N, 70.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Greggs Landing Marl Member (Tuscahoma Formation), Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; calcareous sandstone

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 87827: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.03.2009

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Oculinidae
Oculina alabamensis n. sp. Vaughan 1900 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Astrocoeniidae
Madracis gregorioi n. sp. Vaughan 1900 stony coral