ammonites
AHe-5 Hatchetigbee (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Henry County, Alabama (31.4° N, 85.1° W: paleocoordinates 33.0° N, 70.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bashi Member (Hatchetigbee Bluff Formation), Ypresian (55.8 - 48.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; unlithified, fine-grained, medium, glauconitic, gray, green, sandy, calcareous marl

• None specific to this site, general lithology of the Bashi marl.

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 80787: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 08.05.2008