Also known as Sohl and Koch OFR # 139
Where: Wilcox County, Alabama (32.0° N, 87.3° W: paleocoordinates 35.4° N, 65.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Discoscaphites conradi ammonoid zone, lower Member (Prairie Bluff Formation), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• Haustator bilira assemblage zone
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, silty, sandy lime mudstone
Size class: mesofossils
Preservation: original calcite, replaced with calcite
Collected by L.C. Johnson; reposited in the USNM
• Stephenson pub 1914
Primary reference: N. F. Sohl and C. F. Koch. 1983. Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) Mollusca from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the East Gulf Coastal Plain. USGS Open File Report 83-451:1-239 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 4206: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 14.08.1999, edited by Uta Merkel
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Hemiaster wetherbyi de Loriol 1887 heart urchin | |
Polychaeta | |
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Cephalopoda | |
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Baculites sp., "Baculites (Eubaculites) carinatus" = Eubaculites carinatus
"Baculites (Eubaculites) carinatus" = Eubaculites carinatus Morton 1834 ammonite Baculites (Eubaculites) carinatus
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"Turritella (Sohlitella) trilira" = Turritella trilira Conrad 1860 turret shell Turritella (Sohlitella) trilira (C
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Anchura ? noakensis snail Anchura noakensis? Stephenson - originally entered as "Anchura noakensis ?"
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"Xenophora leprosa" = Xenophora (Endoptygma) leprosa
"Xenophora leprosa" = Xenophora (Endoptygma) leprosa Morton 1834 carrier shell Xenophora leprosa (Morton)
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Bivalvia | |
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Caestocorbula (Caesticorbula) crassaplica Vincent 1910 clam Caesticorbula (Caesticorbula) cras - originally entered as "Caesticorbula crassaplica"
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Protocardia (Pachycardium) spillmani cockle Protocardium (Pachycardium) spillm - originally entered as "Protocardium spillmani"
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Cucullaea (Idonearca) cf. powersi, "Cucullaea (Idonearca) capax" = Idonearca capax, Cucullaea (Idonearca) littlei
Cucullaea (Idonearca) cf. powersi clam Cucullaea (Idonearca) cf. I. powersi - originally entered as "Cucullaea cf. powersi"
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Rhynchonellata | |
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