Where: Monroe County, Alabama (31.8° N, 87.4° W: paleocoordinates 34.3° N, 70.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Greggs Landing Marl Member (Tuscahoma Formation), Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; unlithified, fine-grained, medium, glauconitic, shelly/skeletal, gray, green, silty, calcareous sandstone
Size class: mesofossils
Collection methods: Collected by G.D. Harris.
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 90818: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 18.08.2009
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Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Bivalvia | |
"Venericardia (? Venericor) greggiana" = Venericardia (Baluchicardia) greggiana, Venericardia (Venericor) aposmithi, Venericardia (Venericor) nanaplata, "Venericardia (Leuroactis) pilsbryi" = Venericardia (Venericor) pilsbryi
"Venericardia (? Venericor) greggiana" = Venericardia (Baluchicardia) greggiana Dall 1903 clam
Venericardia (Venericor) nanaplata Gardner and Bowles 1939 clam including Venericardia (Venericor) nanaplata nanna
"Venericardia (Leuroactis) pilsbryi" = Venericardia (Venericor) pilsbryi Stewart 1930 clam | |
"Crassatella halei" = Crassatella aquiana, Crassatella tumidula
"Crassatella halei" = Crassatella aquiana Clark 1895 clam
Crassatella tumidula Whitfield 1865 clam | |
Pholas alatoidea clam
Pholas aldrichi clam | |
"Corbula subengonata" = Cuneocorbula subengonata, Vokesula aldrichi
"Corbula subengonata" = Cuneocorbula subengonata Dall 1898 clam
Vokesula aldrichi Meyer 1885 clam | |
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Gari harrisi clam | |
Tellina bellsiana, Tellina greggi, Tellina semirotunda, Tellina temperata, Tellina (Arcopagia) trumani
Tellina bellsiana tellin clam
Tellina greggi tellin clam
Tellina semirotunda tellin clam
Tellina temperata Aldrich 1911 tellin clam
Tellina (Arcopagia) trumani Harris 1897 tellin clam | |
Ervilia lignitica clam | |
Nemocardium harrisi cockle | |
Basterotia prima Aldrich 1921 clam | |
Panopea alabama clam | |
"Chlamys greggi" = Dhondtichlamys greggi
"Chlamys greggi" = Dhondtichlamys greggi Harris 1897 scallop | |
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Yoldia (Calorhadia) pharcida Dall 1898 pointed nut clam
Saccella robusta pointed nut clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Turbonilla (Cingulina) tuscahomensis, Odostomia insignifica, "Turbonilla (Ptycheulimella) clinensis" = Ptycheulimella, Pyramidella (Iphiana) obtusoides
Odostomia insignifica Anderson and Hanna 1925 snail
"Turbonilla (Ptycheulimella) clinensis" = Ptycheulimella snail | |
Crenilabium cossmanni snail | |
Architectonica greggi sundial
Architectonica intusa sundial | |
Solariorbis "sp. B" Conrad 1865 snail | |
Diodora alabama snail | |
Fusitoma sipha snail | |
Levifusus supraplanus snail | |
Mazzalina tuomeyi snail | |
cf. Pseudoneptunea harrisi true whelk
Cantharus (Endopachychilus) elegantissimus true whelk | |
Bullia tuomeyi snail
Nassarius exilis snail | |
Cochlespira greggi snail | |
"Turris" sp., Hemisurcula silicata, ? Surculoma servatoidea, cf. Sullivania roscoei, Coronia childreni
"Turris" sp. Röding 1798 turrid
Hemisurcula silicata turrid
? Surculoma servatoidea turrid
cf. Sullivania roscoei turrid | |
"Surcula nasuta" = Turricula
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Fulgurofusus rugatus snail | |
Odontopolys sublevis murex snail | |
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Sveltia gilberti snail
Narona greggi snail | |
Agaronia "sp. B" Gray 1839 snail | |
Eocypraea eosmithi Aldrich 1886 snail | |
Aporrhais aldrichi snail | |
Priscoficus triserialis fig shell
Perissolax eocensis fig shell | |
cf. Natica aperta moon snail | |
Cerithiopsis greggiensis Aldrich 1911 snail | |
Epitonium exquisitum wentletrap
Epitonium munistriatum wentletrap | |
Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta Solander 1766 slipper shell | |
"Ampullella recurva" = Ampullina
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Mesalia alabamiensis De Gregorio 1890 turret shell
Turritella bellifera turret shell
Turritella eurynome turret shell
Turritella praecincta turret shell | |
Melanopsis anita snail | |
Atys robustoides snail | |
Scaphander alabamensis snail | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium multannulatum tusk shell | |
Cadulus "sp. D" Philippi 1844 tusk shell |