ACh-14 Lisbon: Lutetian, Alabama

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella rina
10 specimens
recombined as Haustator rina
Turritella rina subrina
Turritella houstonia
2 specimens
Turritella spp.
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Caryocorbula deusseni
6 specimens
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Teredinidae
? Teredo simplex Lea 1833
7 specimens
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Venericardia densata (Conrad 1845)
4 specimens
recombined as Venericardia (Venericor) densata
Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae
? Crassatella texalta Harris 1895
3 specimens
Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae
Glycymeris sp. Da Costa 1778
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Eburneopecten sp. (Conrad 1865)
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Cubitostrea sellaeformis (Conrad 1832)
11 specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Endopachys maclurii (Lea 1833)
6 specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Flabellidae
Flabellum cuneiforme (Lonsdale 1845)
2 specimens
Flabellum cuneiforme pachyphyllum
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Alabama County:Choctaw
Coordinates: 31.7° North, 88.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.9° North, 77.0° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Lutetian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 2
Key time interval:Lutetian
Age range of interval:47.80000 - 41.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Claiborne Formation:Lisbon Member:Upper
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: None.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:glauconitic,gray,green unlithified calcareous sandstone
Secondary lithology:gray,yellow unlithified calcareous sandstone
Lithology description: None specific to this site.
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:81237
Authorizer:A. Miller Enterer:J. Sessa
Modifier:J. Sessa Research group:GCP,marine invertebrate
Created:2008-06-11 08:18:50 Last modified:2010-08-12 10:05:07
Access level:the public Released:2008-06-11 08:18:50
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]