Where: Wilcox County, Alabama (32.0° N, 87.1° W: paleocoordinates 34.6° N, 69.0° 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 87816: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 25.03.2009