ABa-3 (Clayton Fm) (Paleocene of the United States)
Where: Barbour County, Alabama (31.9° N, 85.4° W: paleocoordinates 34.4° N, 65.9° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: uppermost Member (Clayton Formation), Danian (65.5 - 61.7 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; gray, yellow, silty limestone
• lithology described as sandy fossiliferous limestone, and above this is gray calcareous clayey sandy silt
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] more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 2808: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 21.07.1999