St. Stephens Quarry, Glendon Limestone Member (Oligocene of the United States)

Also known as Saint Stephens, Lone Star Cement Quarry

Where: Washington County, Alabama (31.6° N, 88.0° W: paleocoordinates 31.9° N, 82.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Glendon Limestone Member (Byram Formation), Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; limestone and marl

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: L. N. Glawe. 1966. Geologic section exposed in Lone Star Cement Company quarry at St. Stephens Bluff on Tombigbee River, 2 2 miles northeast of the present town of St Stephens, Ala. Facies Changes in the Alabama Tertiary 95-98 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 89610: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 04.06.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Chlamys duncanensis, "Flexopecten anatipes" = Anatipopecten anatipes, Pecten howei, "Pecten perplanus" = Pecten (Pecten) perplanus
Chlamys duncanensis Mansfield 1934 scallop
"Flexopecten anatipes" = Anatipopecten anatipes Morton 1833 scallop
Pecten howei scallop
subspecies mariannensis
"Pecten perplanus" = Pecten (Pecten) perplanus Morton 1833 scallop
subspecies poulsoni (lower beds), subspecies byramensis (upper beds)
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
"Ostrea vicksburgensis" = Lopha (Lopha) vicksburgensis
"Ostrea vicksburgensis" = Lopha (Lopha) vicksburgensis Conrad 1848 oyster