M 670 (Paleocene of the United States)

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
 Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Mesalia alabamiensis De Gregorio 1890 turret shell