M 439 (Eocene to of the United States)

Where: Monroe County, Alabama (31.5° N, 87.5° W: paleocoordinates 32.1° N, 79.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Jackson Group, Bartonian to Bartonian (41.3 - 33.9 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 98361: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 04.10.2010

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Aturiidae
Aturia alabamensis Morton 1834 nautiloid