Where: Wilcox County, Alabama (31.9° N, 87.1° W: paleocoordinates 34.5° N, 68.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Naheola Formation (Midway Group), Selandian (61.6 - 59.2 Ma)
• 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 98436: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 06.10.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Agaronia mediavia snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Crassatella sepulcollis" = Crassatella aquiana
"Crassatella sepulcollis" = Crassatella aquiana Clark 1895 clam |