Escambia County, deep well [Red Bluff Clay] (Oligocene of the United States)

Where: Alabama (31.2° N, 87.2° W: paleocoordinates 31.4° N, 80.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Red Bluff Formation, Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Red Bluff Clay, for which lithostratigraphic relationships are not discussed. AGE: Vicksburgian = Rupelian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within the Red Bluff Clay.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; claystone

• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Clay. LITHIFICATION: Unknown lithification.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

• COLLECTOR: Unknown. REPOSITORY: USNM.

Primary reference: F. Canu and R. S. Bassler. 1920. North American early Tertiary Bryozoa. Smithsonian Institute Bulletin 106:1-843 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 90551: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 04.08.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Limited to bryozoa. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, but with antiquated nomenclature, though includes species-resolution identifications. Nomenclature updated where possible.
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Gymnolaemata
 Cheilostomata - Didymosellidae
Didymosella crassa
 Cheilostomata - Cyclicoporidae
Cyclicopora filifera, Cyclicopora spongiopsis
 Cheilostomata - Microporidae
Micropora coriacea
Micropora coriacea Johnston 1847
 Cheilostomata - Antroporidae
"Membrendoecium pyriforme" = Antropora
"Membrendoecium pyriforme" = Antropora
 Cheilostomata - Romancheinidae
Perigastrella ovoidea
 Cheilostomata - Hippoporinidae
Hippomenella capitimortis
 Cheilostomata - Smittinidae
Smittina granulosa
 Cheilostomata - Tubucellariidae
Tubucellaria vicksburgica
 Cheilostomata - Trypostegidae
Trypostega inornata
 Cheilostomata - Schizoporellidae
Enoplostomella crassimuralis
 Cheilostomata - Adeonidae
Adeonellopsis galeata
Stenolaemata
 Cyclostomata - Oncousoeciidae
Filisparsa typica
 Cyclostomata - Mecynoeciidae
Mecynoecia semota, Mecynoecia cornuta n. sp.
 Cyclostomata - Diastoporidae
Desmeplagioecia compressa
 Cyclostomata - Multisparsidae
Idmonea triforata