1.5 miles NE of Mt. Olive Church: Early/Lower Campanian, Alabama

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Thecostraca - Calanticomorpha - Cretiscalpellidae
Cretiscalpellum macrum Collins 1973
Cretiscalpellum venustum Collins 1973
Thecostraca - Scalpellomorpha - Scalpellidae
Arcoscalpellum hubrichti Collins 1973
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Alabama County:Greene
Coordinates: 32.8° North, 88.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.6° North, 60.1° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Campanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 7
Key time interval:Early/Lower Campanian
Age range of interval:83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Mooreville Chalk
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Lower or middle Mooreville Chalk. Mooreville Chalk spans latest Santonian through part of the Early Campanian, but in western Alabama only the basal part is late Santonian (Liu, 2007).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: chalk
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:BMNH
Collection method comments: Repository: Mississippi State University
Metadata
Also known as:A8
Database number:203111
Authorizer:M. Uhen, M. Clapham Enterer:M. Uhen, M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2019-07-26 15:51:05 Last modified:2020-06-07 18:27:21
Access level:the public Released:2019-07-26 15:51:05
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
56065.decapod J. S. H. Collins. 1973. Cirripedes from the Upper Cretaceous of Alabama and Mississippi, Eastern Gulf Region, USA. Part 1. Palaeontology. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Geology 23(6):349-380 [C. Schweitzer/L. Baltzly]