Hatchechubbee Creek, locality 3 (Cretaceous to of the United States)

Where: Russell County, Alabama (32.2° N, 85.1° W: paleocoordinates 34.1° N, 56.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Blufftown Formation, Late/Upper Santonian to Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 70.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; lithology not reported

• "most likely back barrier or estuarine setting duringl relatively high sea level stands"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with calcite, replaced with phosphate

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: D. R. Schwimmer, G. D. Williams, J. L. Dobie and W. G. Siesser. 1993. Late Cretaceous dinosaurs from the Blufftown Formation in western Georgia and eastern Alabama. Journal of Paleontology 67(2):288-296 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 54138: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 23.09.2005

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosaurinae indet.
Hadrosaurinae indet. Lambe 1918 hadrosaurine
dentary tooth crown and partial root, AUMP3026; L MT IV, AUMP3083