Linden (Cretaceous of the United States)

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

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Guyniidae
Stenocyathus alabamiensis n. sp. Wells 1947 stony coral