Where: Monroe County, Alabama (31.5° N, 87.5° W: paleocoordinates 32.1° N, 78.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Gosport Sand Formation (Claiborne Group), Bartonian (40.4 - 37.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, glauconitic sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. Monsour. 1944. Fossil corals of the genus Turbinolia from the Golf Coast. Journal of Paleontology 18(2):109-118 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 87177: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 09.03.2009