Where: Lowndes County, Alabama (32.2° N, 86.5° W: paleocoordinates 34.6° N, 58.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Arcola Limestone Member (Mooreville Chalk Formation), Middle Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: C. W. Cooke. 1953. American Upper Cretaceous Echinoidea. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 254-A:1-44 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 78185: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 30.01.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Hemiaster arcolensis n. sp.
Hemiaster arcolensis n. sp. Cooke 1953 heart urchin |