Cowikee Creek, North Fork (Cretaceous to of the United States)

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
 Coelacanthiformes - Latimeriidae
Megalocoelacanthus dobiei n. gen. n. sp. Schwimmer et al. 1994 coelacanth