Where: Covington County, Alabama (31.4° N, 86.7° W: paleocoordinates 32.4° N, 75.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Tallahatta Formation, Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)
• lag deposit that separates the Tallahatta and Lisbon Formations
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; glauconitic, quartzose sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: H. M. Maisch, M. A. Becker, and B. H. Raines. 2016. Osteichthyans from the Tallahatta–Lisbon Formation Contact (middle Eocene–Lutetian) Pigeon Creek, Conecuh-Covington Counties, Alabama with Comments on Transatlantic Occurrences in the Northern Atlantic Ocean Basin. PalArch’s Journal of Vertebrate Palaeontology 13(3):1-22 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 209368: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 30.04.2020
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri | |
Lepisosteus sp. Agassiz 1843 gar | |
Pycnodus sp. Agassiz 1833 | |
Albula sp. Gronow 1763 bonefish | |
Egertonia isodonta Cocchi 1866 | |
Scomberomorus sp. Lacépède 1802 | |
Trichiurides cf. sagittidens Winkler 1874 | |
cf. Beryciformes indet. Patterson 1964 | |
Cylindracanthus rectus Agassiz 1843 | |
Sphyraena sp. Artedi 1793 barracuda | |
Ariidae indet. Berg 1958 Ariid catfish |