Where: Clarke County, Alabama (31.9° N, 88.0° W: paleocoordinates 33.1° N, 76.7° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• hand sample-level geographic resolution
When: Bashi Marl Member (Hatchetigbee Formation), Eocene (56.0 - 33.9 Ma)
• Upper Sabinian: lower Eocene. 0.9 m below lower indurated bed of Bashi.
Environment/lithology: marine; bioturbated, glauconitic, gray, green sandstone
Size class: microfossils
Preservation: original sporopollenin
Collected by N. O. Frederiksen
Collection methods: bulk, chemical, hydrochloric, hydroflouric,
Primary reference: N. O. Frederiksen. 1979. Paleogene Sporomorph Biostratigraphy, Northeastern Virginia. Palynology 3:129-167 [P. Jardine/H. Morck]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 233005: authorized by Phillip Jardine, entered by Hannah Morck on 10.01.2024
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Angiospermae | |
Tricolpites asper Frederiksen 1978 | |
Carya "less than 29 µm", Momipites microfoveolatus, Platycaryapollenites swasticoidus, Platycarya platycaryoides
Carya "less than 29 µm" Nuttall 1818 hickory
Momipites microfoveolatus Stanley 1965
Platycaryapollenites swasticoidus Elsik 1974
Platycarya platycaryoides Roche 1969 | |
Betula infrequens birch
Alnus trina alder | |
Casuarinidites spp. Cookson and Pike 1954 | |
Magnoliopsida | |
Plicatopollis | |
Plicatopollis "lunata type" Krutzsch 1962
Plicatopollis "triorbicularis type" Krutzsch 1962 |