Also known as Sohl and Koch OFR # 126
Where: Sumter County, Alabama (32.4° N, 88.0° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 38.7° N, 54.8° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Discoscaphites conradi ammonoid zone, Prairie Bluff Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (72.2 - 66.0 Ma)
• Haustator bilira assemblage zone
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, gray, silty lime mudstone
Size class: mesofossils
Preservation: original calcite
Collected by L.W. Stephenson; reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: L. W. Stephenson. 1914. Cretaceous deposits of the eastern gulf region and species of Exogyra from the eastern gulf region and the Carolinas. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 81:1-55more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 4193: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 14.08.1999, edited by Uta Merkel and Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Panopea decisa clam | |
Plicatula urticosa scallop | |
Gastropoda | |
Perissolax octolirata fig shell | |
Echinoidea | |
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Rhynchonellata | |
Terebratulina floridana Morton 1834 | |
Sedentaria | |
Serpula sp.2 Linnaeus 1758 | |
Cephalopoda | |
"Scaphites conradi" = Discoscaphites conradi
"Scaphites conradi" = Discoscaphites conradi Morton 1834 ammonite | |
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"Baculites carinatus" = Eubaculites carinatus, "Baculites tippaensis" = Eubaculites carinatus
"Baculites carinatus" = Eubaculites carinatus Morton 1834 ammonite
"Baculites tippaensis" = Eubaculites carinatus Morton 1834 ammonite | |
"Nautilus dekayi" = Eutrephoceras dekayi
"Nautilus dekayi" = Eutrephoceras dekayi Morton 1834 | |
Bivalvia | |
"Cucullaea (Idonearca) capax" = Idonearca capax2
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"Gryphaea vesicularis" = Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesicularis, Gryphaeostrea vomer2, "Exogyra costata" = Exogyra (Exogyra) costata
"Gryphaea vesicularis" = Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesicularis Lamarck 1806 oyster
"Exogyra costata" = Exogyra (Exogyra) costata Say 1820 oyster | |
"Ostrea larva" = Agerostrea ungulatus
"Ostrea larva" = Agerostrea ungulatus Böhm 1891 oyster | |
"Ostrea plumosa" = Acutostrea plumosa Morton 1833 oyster | |
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Crenella serica Conrad 1860 clam | |
Trigonia thoracica Morton 1834 clam | |
Liopistha protexta Conrad 1853 clam | |
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Veniella conradi Morton 1833 clam | |
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"Crassatellites vadosa" = Crassatella vadosa
"Crassatellites vadosa" = Crassatella vadosa Morton 1834 clam | |
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Gastropoda | |
Scala sillimani Morton 1834 wentletrap | |
Gyrodes petrosus Morton 1834 moon snail
Gyrodes abyssinus Morton 1834 moon snail | |
"Eutritonium sp." = Charonia2
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"Xenophora leprosa" = Xenophora (Endoptygma) leprosa
"Xenophora leprosa" = Xenophora (Endoptygma) leprosa Morton 1834 carrier shell | |
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Turritella vertebroides Morton 1834 turret shell | |
"Pseudamaura sp." = Ampullina (Pseudamaura)2
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Bulla mortoni Forbes 1845 snail |