West Tennessee hadrosaur (PROXY) (Cretaceous to of the United States)

Where: Tennessee (35.6° N, 89.5° W: paleocoordinates 38.6° N, 60.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Demopolis Chalk Formation (Selma Group), Middle Campanian to Middle Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; micaceous, gray marl

• "gray, micaceous marl"

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: 21 species of calcaeous nannoplankton reported, but not listed (only 2 species named)

Primary reference: J. R. Bryan, D. L. Frederick, D. R. Schwimmer and W. G. Siesser. 1991. First dinosaur record from Tennessee: a Campanian hadrosaur. Journal of Paleontology 65(4):696-697 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 46559: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 19.01.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Coccolithophyceae
 Arkhangelskiales - Arkhangelskiellaceae
Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869 hadrosaurid
FHMM 1989.29.1, vertebrae, phalanx
 Testudines -
Testudines indet. Batsch 1788 turtle
 Squamata - Mosasauridae
Mosasauridae indet. Gervais 1852 mosasaur