Upatoi Creek (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Chattahoochee County, Georgia (32.4° N, 84.8° W: paleocoordinates 32.3° N, 54.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Eutaw Formation, Santonian (86.3 - 83.6 Ma)

• "Santonian member" of the formation

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: trace

Primary reference: D. R. Schwimmer, G. E. Hooks, and B. Johnson. 2002. Revised taxonomy, age, and geographic range of the large lamniform shark Cretodus semplicatus. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22(3):704-707 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 152687: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Joseph Villari on 30.11.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Lamniformes - Pseudoscapanorhynchidae
Cretodus semiplicatus Agassiz 1843 mackerel shark