Hurricane Creek (Paleocene of the United States)
Where: Dale County, Alabama (31.3° N, 85.6° W: paleocoordinates 33.5° N, 69.0° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Bells Landing Marl Member (Tuscahoma Sand Formation), Late/Upper Paleocene (58.7 - 55.8 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; marl
• shell-filled channel
• shell layer, tempestite
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: concretion
Primary reference: C. R. Froede. 2008. A late Paleocene tempestite deposit exposed along a section of Hurricane Creek, Dale County, Alabama. Southeastern Geology 45(4):233-243 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 83447: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 20.08.2008