USGS M 31469 (Cretaceous of the United States)

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
 Ammonitida - Baculitidae
"Baculites arculus" = Boehmoceras arculus
"Baculites arculus" = Boehmoceras arculus Morton 1834 ammonite
Reptilia
 Plesiosauria -
Discosaurus vetustus Leidy 1851 plesiosaur