Where: Greene County, Alabama (32.9° N, 88.0° W: paleocoordinates 35.5° N, 59.4° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Mooreville Chalk Formation (Selma Group), Late/Upper Santonian to Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 70.6 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: limestone
Size class: macrofossils
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 81933: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 18.07.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
"Protostega dixie" = Protostega gigas
"Protostega dixie" = Protostega gigas Cope 1871 sea turtle | |
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Actinopteri | |
Saurodon leanus1 Hays 1830 |