Where: Wilcox County, Alabama (31.9° N, 87.5° W: paleocoordinates 34.4° N, 70.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Greggs Landing or Bells Landing Marls Member (Tuscahoma Formation), Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)
• This collection could be from either the Gregs or the Bells Landing marl member.
• 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 98379: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 05.10.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Levifusus supraplanus snail | |
Mesalia alabamiensis De Gregorio 1890 turret shell |