Where: Marengo County, Alabama (32.3° N, 87.8° W: paleocoordinates 35.7° N, 65.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Prairie Bluff Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• contact of Midway and Prairie Bluff
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; marl
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. W. Wells. 1947. Coral Studies, Part III. Three new Cretaceous corals from Texas and Alabama, Part IV. A new species of Phyllangia from the Florida Miocene, Part V. A new Coenocyathus from Florida. Bulletins of American Paleontology 31(123):162-176 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 123578: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.01.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Stenocyathus alabamiensis n. sp.
Stenocyathus alabamiensis n. sp. Wells 1947 stony coral |