USGS Loc. 6736 - Murder Creek [Chickasawhay Lmst]: Late/Upper Oligocene, Alabama
collected by Mansfield

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea - Echinolampadoida - Echinolampadidae
Echinolampas aldrichi Clark and Twitchell 1915
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Alabama County:Washington
Coordinates: 31.1° North, 87.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:31.4° North, 81.8° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Oligocene
Stage:Chattian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 4
Key time interval:Late/Upper Oligocene
Age range of interval:27.82000 - 23.03000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Chickasawhay
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: poorly lithified "limestone"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:surface (float),surface (in situ),survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:Mansfield
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: W.C Mansfield. REPOSITORY: USNM.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Limited to echinoidea, but molluscs are probably present. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication with species-resolution identifications, but somewhat antiquated nomenclature.
Metadata
Database number:155960
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2014-05-04 21:31:50 Last modified:2014-05-04 21:50:25
Access level:the public Released:2014-05-04 21:31:50
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
32912. C. W. Cooke. 1959. Cenozoic echinoids of eastern United States. United States Geological Survey Professional Papers 321:1-106 [L. Villier/L. Villier/M. Hopkins]