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 | |
Cretiscalpellum venustum Collins 1973 barnacle
Cretiscalpellum macrum Collins 1973 barnacle | |
Arcoscalpellum hubrichti Collins 1973 barnacle |