Roadcut on State Highway 69, Sample R1523 (Eocene of the United States)

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

• Medium-greenish-gray bioturbated glauconitic sand.

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
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Angiospermae
 Gunnerales -
Tricolpites asper Frederiksen 1978
 Poales - Restionaceae
 Fagales - Juglandaceae
 Fagales - Betulaceae
 Fagales - Casuarinaceae
Casuarinidites spp. Cookson and Pike 1954
Magnoliopsida
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Plicatopollis
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