ammonites
ABu-11 (Clayton Fm) (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Butler County, Alabama (31.9° N, 86.9° W: paleocoordinates 34.7° N, 67.4° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pine Barren Member (Clayton Formation), Danian (65.5 - 61.7 Ma)

• local section name: ABu-11

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, yellow, sandy limestone

• lithology described as yellow hard crystalline fossiliferous limestone

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 2812: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 21.07.1999