Where: Wilcox County, Alabama (32.0° N, 87.4° W: paleocoordinates 34.7° N, 69.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Matthews Landing Marl Member (Porters Creek Formation), Selandian (61.6 - 59.2 Ma)
• Matthews Landing Marl or Naheola Beds
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified marl
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: T. W. Vaughan. 1900. The Eocene and lower Oligocene coral faunas of the United States with descriptions of a few doubtfully Cretaceous species. United States Geological Survey, Monograph 39:1-263 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 87817: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 25.03.2009, edited by Austin Hendy
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Anthozoa | |
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Actinopteri | |
Rhynchoconger sp. Jordan and Hobbs 1925 conger eel
"Congridarum" sp. Kaup 1856 conger eel | |
Pterothrissus sp. Hilgendorf 1877 bonefish
Albula aff. bashiana Frizzell 1965 bonefish
"Albulidarum" sp. Frizzell 1965 bonefish | |
"Ariidarum" "sp. 1" Berg 1958 Ariid catfish
"Ariidarum" "sp. 2" Berg 1958 Ariid catfish | |
Ampheristus sp. Konig 1825 | |
Dinematichthys midwayensis n. sp.
Dinematichthys midwayensis n. sp. Nolf and Dockery 1993 | |
Nemipterus caribbaeus n. sp.
Nemipterus caribbaeus n. sp. Nolf and Dockery 1993 | |
Sparidae indet. Cuvier 1817 | |
Serranidae indet. Swainson 1839 perch-like fish | |
"Apogonidarum" rostrosus n. sp.
"Apogonidarum" rostrosus n. sp. Cardinalfish | |
Centroberyx sp. Gill 1862 | |
""Argentinoideorum" sculptissimus n. sp." = Chlorophthalmus postangulatus
""Argentinoideorum" sculptissimus n. sp." = Chlorophthalmus postangulatus Nolf and Dockery 1993 | |
"Teleosteorum" sp. Unknown |