Also known as Reef 690
Where: Clarke County County, Alabama (31.4° N, 87.9° W: paleocoordinates 34.0° N, 70.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Salt Mountain Limestone Formation, Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)
• Nannoplankton zone NP 7
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical, peel or thin section,
• Smaller foraminifera omitted
Primary reference: J. R. Bryan, B. C. Carter, R. J. Flugeman, Jr., D. K. Krumm, and T. A. Stemann. 1997. The Salt Mountain Limestone of Alabama. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 30(1):2-60 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 34652: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 15.09.2003, edited by Uta Merkel
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Foraminifera | |
Dicotyledoneae | |
Florideophyceae | |
Lithoporella sp. Foslie 1909
? Lithophyllum sp. Philippi 1837
Archaeolithothamnium sp. Rothpletz 1891 | |
"? Lithothamnium sp." = Lithothamnion, Mesophyllum sp.
"? Lithothamnium sp." = Lithothamnion Heydrich 1897
Mesophyllum sp. Lemoine 1930 | |
Anthozoa | |
"Antillia sp." = Trachyphyllia
"Antillia sp." = Trachyphyllia Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
Oculina sp. n. sp.
Oculina sp. n. sp. Gray 1847 stony coral | |
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Cyathoseris ? valmondasiaca stony coral
"Cyathoseris eocenica" = Cyathoseris formosa d'Achiardi 1875 stony coral | |
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unclassified | |
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Echinoidea | |
Cidaroida indet. Claus 1880 pencil urchin | |
"Cidaris" sp., "? Stereocidaris sp." = Temnocidaris (Stereocidaris)
"Cidaris" sp. Leske 1778 pencil urchin
"? Stereocidaris sp." = Temnocidaris (Stereocidaris) Pomel 1883 pencil urchin | |
Thylechinus (Gagaria) salis n. sp.2
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? Salenia sp. Gray 1835 sea urchin | |
? Echinopsis sp. Agassiz 1840 sea urchin | |
Bivalvia | |
Lithophaga aff. nigra d'Orbigny 1845 mussel |