Where: Lowndes County, Alabama (32.1° N, 86.8° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 37.0° N, 56.1° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pine Barren Member (Clayton Formation), Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)

• The Clayton Formation disconformably overlies the Prairie Bluff Formation.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; unlithified, silty sandstone

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ),

• Some areas were sampled on the outcrop surface, others were excavated with pick and shovel and some more specimens came from screenwashing bulk sediments. Collection efforts were focused on the basal Clayton Formation.

Primary reference: J. R. Bryan and D. S. Jones. 1989. Fabric of the Cretaceous-Tertiary Marine Macrofaunal Transition at Braggs, Alabama. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 69:279-301 [A. Miller/J. Sessa]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 83295: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 15.08.2008

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