Where: Sumter County, Alabama (32.7° N, 88.1° W: paleocoordinates 35.5° N, 60.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Bluffport Marl Member (Demopolis Chalk Formation), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• Upper Campanian, lower half of NP Zone CC23
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; marl and chalk
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 2001-2002
Primary reference: A. D. Gentry, J. A. Ebersole, and C. R. Kiernan. 2019. Asmodochelys parhami, a new fossil marine turtle from the Campanian Demopolis Chalk and the stratigraphic congruence of competing marine turtle phylogenies. Royal Society Open Science 6:191950:1-12 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 207338: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 07.01.2020
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Bivalvia | |
Agerostrea falcata Morton 1827 oyster | |
"Exogyra costata" = Exogyra (Exogyra) costata
"Exogyra costata" = Exogyra (Exogyra) costata Say 1820 oyster | |
Actinopteri | |
Pachyrhizodus caninus Cope 1872 | |
Enchodus petrosus Cope 1874 | |
Reptilia | |
Hadrosauridae indet. hadrosaurid | |
Ornithurae indet. avialan | |
? Prognathodon sp. Dollo 1889 mosasaur
Mosasaurus sp. Parkinson 1822 mosasaur
Plioplatecarpus sp. Dollo 1882 mosasaur | |
? Toxochelys moorevillensis Zangerl 1953 turtle | |
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Chondrichthyes | |
"Cretalamna sp." = Cretolamna
"Cretalamna sp." = Cretolamna Glikman 1958 mackerel shark | |
Squalicorax kaupi Agassiz 1843 crow shark
Squalicorax pristodontus Agassiz 1835 crow shark | |
Ischyrhiza mira Leidy 1856 ray |