Also known as A5
Where: Greene County, Alabama (32.9° N, 88.0° W: paleocoordinates 35.7° N, 60.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Mooreville Chalk Formation (Selma Group), Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• From the middle Mooreville. Mooreville Chalk spans latest Santonian through part of the Early Campanian, but in western Alabama only the basal part is late Santonian (Liu, 2007).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: chalk
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the BMNH
• Repository: Mississippi State University
Primary reference: J. S. H. Collins. 1973. Cirripedes from the Upper Cretaceous of Alabama and Mississippi, Eastern Gulf Region, USA. Part 1. Palaeontology. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Geology 23(6):349-380 [C. Schweitzer/L. Baltzly]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 172589: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Lerin Baltzly on 12.08.2015, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Thecostraca | |
Arcoscalpellum hubrichti Collins 1973 barnacle | |
Cretiscalpellum macrum n. sp.
Cretiscalpellum macrum n. sp. Collins 1973 barnacle |