Where: Greene County, Alabama (32.8° N, 87.9° W: paleocoordinates 33.3° N, 56.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Tombigbee Sand Member (Eutaw Formation), Santonian (86.3 - 83.6 Ma)
Environment/lithology: glauconitic sandstone
Reposited in the USGS
Primary reference: W. J. Kennedy and W. A. Cobban. 1991. Upper Cretaceous (upper Santonian) Boehmoceras fauna from the Gulf Coast region of the United States. Geological Magazine 128(2):167-189 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 3586: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 05.08.1999, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
"Baculites arculus" = Boehmoceras arculus
"Baculites arculus" = Boehmoceras arculus Morton 1834 ammonite | |
Reptilia | |
Discosaurus vetustus Leidy 1851 plesiosaur |