Sohl and Koch OFR # 137: Late/Upper Maastrichtian, Alabama

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Scaphitidae
Discoscaphites conradi (Morton 1834)
1 specimen
Discoscaphites conradi (Morton) va
Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Nautilidae
Eutrephoceras dekayi (Morton 1834)
1 specimen
Eutrephoceras dekayi (Morton)
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Plicatulidae
Plicatula (Plicatula) mullicaensis
2 specimens
Plicatula (Plicatula) mullicaensis
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Megatrigoniidae
Pterotrigonia (Scabrotrigonia) thoracica (Morton 1834)
1 specimen
Pterotrigonia (Scabrotrigonia) tho
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Alabama County:Wilcox
Coordinates: 32.1° North, 87.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.5° North, 65.5° West
Geographic resolution:outcrop
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:72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Prairie Bluff Member:lower
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Stratigraphy comments: Haustator bilira assemblage zone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:glauconitic,gray lithified silty,sandy 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:field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Museum repositories:USGS
Collection method comments: Stephenson pub 1914
Metadata
Also known as:Rocky Bluff; USGS # 6791
Database number:4204
Authorizer:M. Kosnik Enterer:M. Kosnik
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:GCP,marine invertebrate
Created:1999-08-14 13:00:00 Last modified:2017-07-04 19:22:20
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:

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]