USGS 5643, Moscow Bluff: Late/Upper Maastrichtian, Alabama
collected by S.W. McCallie

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
Hemiaster wetherbyi de Loriol 1887
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Alabama County:Sumter
Coordinates: 32.4° North, 88.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.9° North, 66.0° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 8
Key time interval:Late/Upper Maastrichtian
Age range of interval:70.60000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Prairie Bluff
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified chalk
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:USNM
Collectors:S.W. McCallie
Metadata
Database number:197604
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2018-11-17 20:20:34 Last modified:2018-11-17 20:21:51
Access level:the public Released:2018-11-17 20:20:34
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

26335.1% 20600C. W. Cooke. 1953. American Upper Cretaceous Echinoidea. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 254-A:1-44 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/M. Clapham]