ammonites
AWi-37 (Clayton Fm) (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Wilcox County, Alabama (32.1° N, 87.3° W: paleocoordinates 35.0° N, 67.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• local section name: AWi-37

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• lithology is described as sandy, silty 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 2823: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 21.07.1999