West Greene, North (Cretaceous to of the United States)

Also known as Montgomery's Farm

Where: Greene County, Alabama (33.0° N, 88.1° W: paleocoordinates 35.6° N, 59.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Mooreville Chalk Formation (Selma Group), Late/Upper Santonian to Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 70.6 Ma)

• middle Mooreville

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. P. Applegate. 1970. The vertebrate fauna of the Selma Formation of Alabama, part VIII, the fishes. Fieldiana: Geology Memoires 3(8):385-433 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 82049: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 21.07.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Teleostei -
 Elopiformes - Elopidae
Palelops eutawensis Applegate 1970
 Crossognathiformes - Pachyrhizodontidae
 Ichthyodectiformes - Ichthyodectidae
Xiphactinus audax Leidy 1870
 Ichthyodectiformes - Saurodontidae
Saurodon leanus Hays 1830
 Salmoniformes - Cimolichthyidae
 Aulopiformes - Enchodontidae
 Beryciformes - Hoplopterygiidae
? Hoplopteryx sp. Agassiz 1839
Chondrichthyes
 Lamniformes - Mitsukurinidae
Scapanorhynchus rhaphiodon Agassiz 1843 goblin shark