Where: Sumter County, Alabama (32.4° N, 88.0° W: paleocoordinates 35.1° N, 69.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Sucarnochee Clay Formation (Midway Group), Paleocene (65.5 - 55.8 Ma)

• Sucarnochee or Black Bluff Beds

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified claystone

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 87815: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 25.03.2009, edited by Samantha Yost