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The Eocene larger foraminifer Lepidocyclina ariana Cole and Ponton, from the so-called Polylepidina gardnerae horizon at Little Stave Creek, Alabama

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2016

Edward Robinson
Edward Robinson*
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, University of the West Indies, Kingston 7, Jamaica
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Abstract

Recent sampling for larger foraminifers in the so-called Polylepidina gardnerae horizon in the middle Eocene Lisbon Formation of the Little Stave Creek section, southwest Alabama, did not produce any examples of the lepidocyclinid foraminifer Polylepidina gardnerae Cole, but several specimens of the stratigraphically younger species, Lepidocyclina ariana Cole and Ponton, were recovered. Although the P. gardnerae horizon is named on nearly all figures of this important Gulf Coast section published since 1944, preliminary research has also failed to turn up a published basis for the identification of P. gardnerae at this locality. As L. ariana and P. gardnerae are not normally found together, it is the writer's opinion that true P. gardnerae probably has not been collected from any part of the Lisbon Formation at Little Stave Creek. If it does occur, it should be found at a lower horizon than that indicated in the literature.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 71 , Issue 1 , January 1997 , pp. 1 - 5
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