PRI 1072 (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Clarke County, Alabama (31.5° N, 87.9° W: paleocoordinates 32.1° N, 79.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Moodys Branch Formation (Jackson Group), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• formation-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 98273: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 29.09.2010

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Mesalia vetusta Conrad 1833 turret shell
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
"Yoldia (? Orthoyoldia) "sp. D"" = Orthoyoldia
"Yoldia (? Orthoyoldia) "sp. D"" = Orthoyoldia Verrill 1897 pointed nut clam