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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Mesalia vetusta Conrad 1833 turret shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Tellina (Eurytellina) linifera tellin clam | |
"Yoldia (? Orthoyoldia) "sp. D"" = Orthoyoldia
"Yoldia (? Orthoyoldia) "sp. D"" = Orthoyoldia Verrill 1897 pointed nut clam |