Where: Wilcox County, Alabama (31.9° N, 87.1° W: paleocoordinates 34.9° N, 67.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Porters Creek Formation (Midway Group), Danian to Danian (66.0 - 59.2 Ma)
• Porters Creek AKA Sucarnoochee fm.
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: mesofossils
Primary reference: K. V. Palmer and D. C. Brann. 1965. Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Peteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda. Bulletins of American Paleontology 48:1-471 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 90611: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 11.08.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Ostrea (Ostrea) pulaskensis Harris 1892 oyster | |
"Venericardia wilcoxensis" = Venericardia (Baluchicardia) wilcoxensis
"Venericardia wilcoxensis" = Venericardia (Baluchicardia) wilcoxensis Dall 1903 clam | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium mediaviense tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
Polinices onustus moon snail | |
"Volutocorbis rugatus" = Athleta (Volutocorbis)
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Orthosurcula adeona ribbed mitre |