High Log Creek [Eutaw Fm.] (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Russell County, Alabama (32.3° N, 85.3° W: paleocoordinates 32.2° N, 54.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tombigbee Sand Member (Eutaw Formation), Santonian (86.3 - 83.6 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 87057: 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 Schwimmer et al. 1994 coelacanth