Also known as Sohl and Koch OFR # 125
Where: Sumter County, Alabama (32.5° N, 88.1° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 38.8° N, 54.8° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Discoscaphites conradi ammonoid zone, Prairie Bluff Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (72.2 - 66.0 Ma)
• Haustator bilira assemblage zone
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray, sandy lime mudstone
Size class: mesofossils
Preservation: original calcite
Collected by L.W. Stephenson, L.C. Johnson; reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: L. W. Stephenson. 1914. Cretaceous deposits of the eastern gulf region and species of Exogyra from the eastern gulf region and the Carolinas. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 81:1-55more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 4192: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 14.08.1999
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Gyrodes petrosa" = Gyrodes petrosus
"Gyrodes petrosa" = Gyrodes petrosus Morton 1834 moon snail | |
Bellifusus sp. Stephenson 1941 snail | |
Buccinopsis sp. Conrad 1857 true whelk | |
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell | |
Bivalvia | |
"Crassatellites vadosa" = Crassatella vadosa
"Crassatellites vadosa" = Crassatella vadosa Morton 1834 clam | |
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Pycnodonte sp., "Gryphaea vomer" = Gryphaeostrea vomer, "Exogyra costata" = Exogyra (Exogyra) costata
Pycnodonte sp. Fischer von Waldheim 1835 oyster
"Gryphaea vomer" = Gryphaeostrea vomer Morton 1828 oyster
"Exogyra costata" = Exogyra (Exogyra) costata Say 1820 oyster | |
Cephalopoda | |
"Nautilus dekayi" = Eutrephoceras dekayi
"Nautilus dekayi" = Eutrephoceras dekayi Morton 1834 | |
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"Scaphites conradi" = Discoscaphites conradi
"Scaphites conradi" = Discoscaphites conradi Morton 1834 ammonite | |
"Baculites (Eubaculites) carinatus" = Eubaculites carinatus, "Baculites tippaensis" = Eubaculites carinatus, Baculites sp.
"Baculites (Eubaculites) carinatus" = Eubaculites carinatus Morton 1834 ammonite
"Baculites tippaensis" = Eubaculites carinatus Morton 1834 ammonite
Baculites sp. Lamarck 1799 ammonite | |
Diplomoceras trabeatus ammonite |