Turnipseed Dinosaur Site (RMM) (Cretaceous to of the United States)

Where: Montgomery County, Alabama (32.2° N, 86.0° W: paleocoordinates 34.5° N, 58.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

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

• 9.7 meters above the basal conglomerate of the Demopolis Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; argillaceous, calcareous marl

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: D. R. Schwimmer and R. H. Best. 1989. First dinosaur fossils from Georgia, with notes on additional Cretaceous vertebrates from the state. Georgia Journal of Science 47:147-157 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 48682: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 28.03.2005, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Appalachiosaurus montgomeriensis n. gen. n. sp. Carr et al. 2005 coelurosaur
RMM 6670
Coccolithophyceae
  - Calyptrosphaeraceae
Calculites ovalis Stradner 1963