Pigeon Creek (Eocene of the United States)

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

• The macrofossil lag is a quartz, glauconite sand containing original shell material and steinkerns belonging to oysters, bivalves, gastropods, and invertebrate ichnofossil casts, in addition to bones and teeth from chondrichthyans, osteichthyans, reptiles, and marine mammals.

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

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Actinopteri
 Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae
Lepisosteus sp.
Lepisosteus sp. Agassiz 1843 gar
 Pycnodontiformes - Pycnodontidae
Pycnodus sp.
Pycnodus sp. Agassiz 1833
 Albuliformes - Albulidae
Albula sp.
Albula sp. Gronow 1763 bonefish
 Elopiformes - Phyllodontidae
Egertonia isodonta
Egertonia isodonta Cocchi 1866
 Scombriformes - Scombridae
Scomberomorus sp.
Scomberomorus sp. Lacépède 1802
 Scombriformes - Trichiuridae
Trichiurides cf. sagittidens
 Tetraodontiformes - Ostraciidae
Ostraciidae indet.
 Teleostei -
cf. Beryciformes indet.
cf. Beryciformes indet. Patterson 1964
 Acanthopterygii -
Cylindracanthus rectus
 Istiophoriformes - Sphyraenidae
Sphyraena sp.
Sphyraena sp. Artedi 1793 barracuda
 Siluriformes - Ariidae
Ariidae indet.
Ariidae indet. Berg 1958 Ariid catfish