Sohl and Koch OFR # 109: Late/Upper Maastrichtian, Alabama
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
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Crinoidae indet.
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Crinoid columnal | ||||||||||
Thecostraca
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Cirripidea indet.
Rafinesque 1816
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Barnacles plates | ||||||||||
= Cirripedia indet.
Rafinesque 1816
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Hendy 2008 | |||||||||
misspelling | ||||||||||
Polychaeta
- Sabellida
- Serpulidae
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Serpula sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Serpula sp. | ||||||||||
Polychaeta
- Serpulimorpha
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Hamulus onyx
Morton 1834
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Hamulus onyx Morton | ||||||||||
unclassified
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Bryozoa indet.
Ehrenberg 1831
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Bryozoa (encrusting) | ||||||||||
Bryozoa indet.
Ehrenberg 1831
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Bryozoa (branching) | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Mytilida
- Crenellidae
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Crenella serica
Conrad 1860
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10 specimens | |||||||||
Crenella serica Conrad | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Gryphaeidae
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Exogyra costata
(Say 1820)
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29 specimens | |||||||||
original and current combination Exogyra (Exogyra) costata | ||||||||||
Exogyra costata Say | ||||||||||
Pycnodonte sp.
(Fischer von Waldheim 1835)
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16 specimens | |||||||||
Pycnodonte sp. | ||||||||||
Pycnodonte vesicularis
(Lamarck 1806)
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9 specimens | |||||||||
recombined as Pycnodonta vesicularis | ||||||||||
Pycnodonte vesicularis Lamarck | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Limidae
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Lima (Lima) acutilineata
Conrad 1858
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11 specimens | |||||||||
recombined as Limatula acutilineata | ||||||||||
Lima (Lima) acutilineata Conrad | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Plicatulidae
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Plicatula (Plicatula) mullicaensis
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159 specimens | |||||||||
Plicatula (Plicatula) mullicaensis | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Anomiidae
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Anomia (Anomia) argentaria
Morton 1833
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Anomia (Anomia) argentaria Morton | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Spondylidae
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Spondylus (Spondylus) sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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4 specimens | |||||||||
Spondylus (Spondylus) sp. | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Pectinidae
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Chlamys (Radiopecten) sp.
Röding 1798
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4 specimens | |||||||||
Chlamys (Radiopecten) sp. | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Neitheidae
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Neithea (Neitheops) sp.
(Stewart 1930)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
original and current combination Neitheops | ||||||||||
Neithea (Neitheops) sp. | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Dimyidae
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Atreta melleni
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122 specimens | |||||||||
Atreta melleni (Stephenson) | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Myalinida
- Inoceramidae
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Inoceramus (Inoceramus) sp.
Sowerby 1814
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Inoceramus (Inoceramus) sp. | ||||||||||
Gastropoda
- Naticidae
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Naticidae indet.
Guilding 1834
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Naticid snail boring | ||||||||||
Echinoidea
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Echinoidea indet.
(Leske 1778)
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Echinoid sp. - originally entered as "Echinoidea sp." | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Alabama | County: | Sumter |
Coordinates: | 32.7° North, 88.3° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 36.2° North, 66.2° West | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Stage: | Maastrichtian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 8 |
*Period: | Late/Upper Cretaceous | *Epoch: | Late/Upper Senonian |
*International age/stage: | Middle - Late/Upper Maastrichtian | ||
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Maastrichtian | Ammonoid zone: | Discoscaphites conradi |
Age range of interval: | 70.60000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Prairie Bluff | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Haustator bilira assemblage zone |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | gray lithified lime mudstone | ||
Environment: | marine indet. | Tectonic setting: | passive margin |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,original calcite |
Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
Collection methods: | bulk,field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
Museum repositories: | USGS |
Collection method comments: Sohl collection |
Metadata
Also known as: | ; USGS # 31502 | ||
Database number: | 4176 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Kosnik, A. Hendy | Enterer: | M. Kosnik, A. Hendy |
Modifier: | M. Manojlovic | Research group: | GCP,marine invertebrate |
Created: | 1999-08-14 13:00:00 | Last modified: | 2016-07-25 19:33:15 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1999-08-14 13:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
283. | N. F. Sohl and C. F. Koch. 1983. Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) Mollusca from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the East Gulf Coastal Plain. USGS Open File Report 83-451:1-239 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
26349 | A. J. W. Hendy. 2008. Personal opinions and reidentification of pre-Cenozoic Mollusca. [A. Hendy/A. Hendy] | |
29915 | J. A. Sessa, T. J. Bralower, M. E. Patzkowsky, J. C. Handley, and L. C. Ivany. 2012. Environmental and biological controls on the diversity and ecology of Late Cretaceous through early Paleogene marine ecosystems in the US Gulf Coastal Plain. Paleobiology 38(2):218-239 [M. Patzkowsky/J. Sessa/J. Sessa] |