Where: Montgomery County, Alabama (32.3° N, 86.5° W: paleocoordinates 34.6° N, 58.0° W)
• coordinate stated in text
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 81935: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 18.07.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri | |
Pachyrhizodus caninus1 Cope 1872 | |
Reptilia | |
Calcarichelys gemma n. gen. n. sp.
Calcarichelys gemma n. gen. n. sp. Zangerl 1953 sea turtle | |
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