Also known as ADa-1
Where: Dallas County, Alabama (32.4° N, 87.2° W: paleocoordinates 35.0° N, 59.4° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Mooreville Chalk Formation (Selma Group), Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• near upper third of Mooreville profile
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; white, yellow marl
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by R. Zangerl, W. Turnbull, & C. M. Barber in 1946; reposited in the FMNH
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,
• Chicago Natural History Museum. Collected by Rainer Zangerl, William Turnbull and C.M. Barber in 1946
Primary reference: R. Zangerl. 1948. The vertebrate fauna of the Selma Formation of Alabama. Part I. Introduction. Fieldiana: Geology Memoirs 3(1):1-16 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 52053: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 15.07.2005, edited by Matthew Carrano
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Lophorhothon atopus n. gen. n. sp.
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