Mount Olive Church (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as A6

Where: Greene County, Alabama (32.9° N, 88.0° W: paleocoordinates 35.6° N, 60.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mooreville Chalk Formation, Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• Lower or middle Mooreville Chalk. 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 203110: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 26.07.2019, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Thecostraca
 Calanticomorpha - Cretiscalpellidae
Cretiscalpellum venustum Collins 1973 barnacle
Cretiscalpellum macrum Collins 1973 barnacle
 Scalpellomorpha - Scalpellidae
Arcoscalpellum hubrichti Collins 1973 barnacle