Also known as Cedarville

Where: Hale County, Alabama (32.6° N, 87.7° W: paleocoordinates 35.1° N, 59.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mooreville Chalk Formation (Selma Group), Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• Unnamed lower member of the Mooreville Chalk Fm. Approximately 10 m above the Santonian–Campanian boundary

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R. Zangerl, J. Dobie in 1950s, 1966, 1972

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

Primary reference: R. Zangerl. 1953. The vertebrate fauna of the Selma Formation of Alabama. Part III. The turtles of the family Protostegidae. Fieldiana: Geology Memoirs 3(3):63-133 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 81930: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 18.07.2008, edited by Matthew Carrano

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