Where: Shelby County, Alabama (33.3° N, 86.8° W: paleocoordinates 29.7° S, 74.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pygodus serra conodont zone, Little Oak Formation, Chazyan (470.0 - 457.3 Ma)
• Chert beds; Climacograptus bicornis
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: cherty/siliceous limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: replaced with silica
Reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: C. Butts. 1926. The Paleozoic rocks. Geological Survey Alabama, Special Report 14:41-230 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 100250: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 03.12.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Gastropoda | |
"Pleurotomaria euconica n. sp." = Clathrospira euconica
"Pleurotomaria euconica n. sp." = Clathrospira euconica Butts 1926 snail | |
"Oxydiscus cf. subacutus" = Alaskadiscus subacutus
"Oxydiscus cf. subacutus" = Alaskadiscus subacutus Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail | |
|
Tetranota cf. obsoleta Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail | |
Raphistoma pelhamensis n. sp.
Raphistoma pelhamensis n. sp. Butts 1926 snail | |
|
Maclurites sp. Le Sueur 1818 snail | |
| Rhynchonellata | |
"Glyptorthis concinnula n. sp." = Glyptorthis crispa
"Glyptorthis concinnula n. sp." = Glyptorthis crispa M'Coy 1846 | |
| Strophomenata | |
Eremotoechia alabamensis n. sp.
Eremotoechia alabamensis n. sp. Cooper 1956 | |