Where: Wilcox County, Alabama (32.1° N, 87.4° W: paleocoordinates 34.8° N, 69.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Matthews Landing Marl Member (Porters Creek Formation), Selandian (61.6 - 59.2 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 98417: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 06.10.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Turritella aldrichi, "Turritella alabamiensis" = Mesalia alabamiensis
Turritella aldrichi turret shell
"Turritella alabamiensis" = Mesalia alabamiensis De Gregorio 1890 turret shell |