Where: Wilcox County, Alabama (31.9° N, 88.0° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 36.0° N, 60.8° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bells Landing Marl Member (Tuscahoma Formation), Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)

• The fossiliferous bed is about 7 feet thick and contains lare Ostrea sinuosa and Venericardia aposmithii in the upper preserved mollusks in irregular layers near the center and in the lower part of the bed. Large spheroidal concretions have formed in the bed.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; unlithified, glauconitic, gray, green, calcareous sandstone

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: L. D. Toulmin. 1977. Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region. Geological Survey of Alabama, Monograph 13(1):1-602 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 80762: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 06.05.2008

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