AWi-12 (Porters Creek): Selandian, Alabama

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Mathildidae
Solariella alabamensis (Aldrich 1886)
1 specimen
recombined as Toulminella alabamensis
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella alabamiensis (De Gregorio 1890)
54 specimens
recombined as Mesalia alabamiensis
Turritella aldrichi
23 specimens
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Natica sp. Scopoli 1777
4 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turridae
Coronia mediavia
1 specimen
spelled with current rank as Gemmula (Coronia)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Costellariidae
Orthosurcula persa
5 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Ptychatractidae
Exilia pergracilis Conrad 1860
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Volutocorbis limopsis
10 specimens
spelled with current rank as Athleta (Volutocorbis)
Volutocorbis rugatus
8 specimens
spelled with current rank as Athleta (Volutocorbis)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
Levifusus suteri
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Latirus tortilis (Whitfield 1865)
8 specimens
recombined as Pseudolatirus tortilis
Falsifusus harrisi
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Strepsidura contorea
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Rostellariidae
Calyptraphorus aldrichi
20 specimens
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Venericardia wilcoxensis Dall 1903
24 specimens
recombined as Venericardia (Baluchicardia) wilcoxensis
Bivalvia - Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Cucullaea macrodonta
20 specimens
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Jupiteria smirna
4 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Alabama County:Wilcox
Coordinates: 32.0° North, 87.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.7° North, 69.3° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Paleocene
Stage:Selandian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 1
*Period:Tertiary *Local age/stage:Landenian
Key time interval:Selandian
Age range of interval:61.60000 - 59.20000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Porters Creek Member:Matthews Landing Marl
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: unlithified calcareous marl
Lithology description: lithology described as a marl
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:2917
Authorizer:M. Patzkowsky Enterer:K. Layou
Modifier:L. Eccles Research group:GCP,marine invertebrate
Created:1999-07-22 06:58:23 Last modified:2011-09-30 10:04:47
Access level:the public Released:1999-07-22 06:58:23
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

124. L. D. Toulmin. 1977. Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region. Geological Survey of Alabama, Monograph 13(1):1-602 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou/P. Mannion]

Secondary references:

29915 J. A. Sessa, T. J. Bralower, M. E. Patzkowsky, J. C. Handley, and L. C. Ivany. 2012. Environmental and biological controls on the diversity and ecology of Late Cretaceous through early Paleogene marine ecosystems in the US Gulf Coastal Plain. Paleobiology 38(2):218-239 [M. Patzkowsky/J. Sessa/J. Sessa]