Fall Creek mouth (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Covington County, Alabama (31.3° N, 86.6° W: paleocoordinates 31.8° N, 77.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Moodys Branch Formation, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. S. Osborn, R. Mooi, and C. N. Cimpaglio. 2016. Additions to the Eocene echinoid fauna of the southeastern United States, including a new genus and species of prenasterid heart urchin. Southeastern Geology 52(1):33-59 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 204728: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 19.09.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Echinolampadoida - Echinolampadidae
Echinolampas andalusiensis n. sp. Osborn et al. 2016 sea urchin