Where: Barbour County, Alabama (32.0° N, 85.2° W: paleocoordinates 34.0° N, 56.9° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Blufftown Formation, Late/Upper Santonian to Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 70.6 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: D. R. Schwimmer, J. D. Steward, and G. D. Williams. 1994. Giant fossil coelacanths of the Late Cretaceous in the eastern United States. Geology 22:503-506 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 87056: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 02.03.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Coelacanthimorpha | |
Megalocoelacanthus dobiei n. gen. n. sp.
Megalocoelacanthus dobiei n. gen. n. sp. Schwimmer et al. 1994 coelacanth |