Lisbon (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Monroe County, Alabama (31.6° N, 87.6° W: paleocoordinates 32.5° N, 77.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lisbon Formation (Claiborne Group), Middle Eocene (47.8 - 37.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

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 88160: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 02.04.2009

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Dendrophyllia lisbonensis n. sp. Vaughan 1900 stony coral