Turkey Creek (Eocene of the United States)
Where: Choctaw County, Alabama (31.8° N, 88.3° W: paleocoordinates 32.5° N, 79.4° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Lisbon Formation, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: coastal; coarse-grained, glauconitic sandstone
• glauconitic, coarse sands with interbedded, silty and glauconitic claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: H. M. Maisch, M. A. Becker, B. W. Raines and J. A. Chamberlain. 2014. Chondrichthyans from the Tallahatta-Lisbon Formatino contact (Middle Eocene), Silas, Choctaw County, Alabama. Paludicola 9(4):183-2009 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 205834: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 24.10.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Rhinoptera sp. Cuvier 1829 cownose ray | |
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cf. Aetomylaeus sp. Garman 1908 eagle ray | |
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Pristis sp. Linck 1790 sawfish | |
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Rhizoprionodon sp. Whitley 1929 sharpnose shark
Physogaleus secundus Winkler 1876 requiem shark
Abdounia recticona requiem shark
Abdounia enniskilleni White 1956 requiem shark | |
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Galeocerdo eaglesomei White 1926 tiger shark | |
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Scyliorhinus sp. Blainville 1816 cat shark | |
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Striatolamia macrota Agassiz 1838 goblin shark | |
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Carcharodon auriculatus Blainville 1818 white shark | |
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Brachycarcharias lerichei Casier 1946 sand tiger shark | |
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Otodus obliquus Agassiz 1838 mackerel shark | |