Where: Greene County, Alabama (32.9° N, 88.1° W: paleocoordinates 35.7° N, 60.1° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Exogyra ponderosa other zone, Mooreville Chalk Formation (Selma Group), Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• early to mid-Campanian, nannofossil zone 18a of Sissingh, 1977. "uppermost beds" at site.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; gray, argillaceous chalk
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Collected by C. Kiernan, D. Schwimmer in 1980–2001
Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), sieve,
Primary reference: K. Kiernan and D. R. Schwimmer. 2004. First record of a velociraptorine theropod (Tetanurae, Dromaeosauridae) from the eastern Gulf Coastal United States. The Mosasaur 7:89-93 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 82635: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 30.07.2008, edited by Matthew Carrano and Philip Mannion
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin | |
unclassified | |
Reptilia | |
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Aves | |
Ichthyornis dispar Marsh 1872 bird | |
Reptilia | |
Mosasauridae indet. Gervais 1852 mosasaur | |
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Actinopteri | |
Teleostei indet. Müller 1846 | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Elasmobranchii indet. Bonaparte 1838 elasmobranch | |
Ischyrhiza mira Leidy 1856 ray | |
Pseudocorax laevis Leriche 1906 mackerel shark | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
Polychaeta | |
Hamulus onyx Morton 1834 | |
Bivalvia | |
Inoceramus sp. Sowerby 1814 clam | |
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Agerostrea falcata Morton 1827 oyster | |
Coccolithophyceae | |
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Quadrum gartneri Prins and Perch-Nielsen 1977 |