Where: Choctaw County, Alabama (32.1° N, 88.1° W: paleocoordinates 34.1° N, 73.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Hatchetigbee Bluff Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• From upper member.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; claystone and siltstone

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 87835: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.03.2009

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