Sohl and Koch OFR # 140: Late/Upper Maastrichtian, Alabama

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Nautilidae
Eutrephoceras dekayi (Morton 1834)
2 specimens
Eutrephoceras dekayi (Morton)
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Scaphitidae
Discoscaphites conradi (Morton 1834)
4 specimens
Discoscaphites conradi (Morton) va
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799
10 specimens
Turritella sp.
Turritella (Sohlitella) trilira (Conrad 1860)
1 specimen
original and current combination Turritella trilira
Turritella (Sohlitella) trilira (C
Turritella vertebroides Morton 1834
3 specimens
Turritella vertebroides Morton
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda
Neogastropoda indet. Thiele 1929
10 specimens
Neogastropods indeterminate
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Pyropsidae
Pyropsis sp. (Conrad 1860)
2 specimens
Pyropsis spp.
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Ornopsis sp. Wade 1916
2 specimens
Ornopsis sp.
Stantonella sp. Wade 1926
1 specimen
Stantonella sp.
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Bellifusus sp. Stephenson 1941
2 specimens
Bellifusus sp.
Graphidula sp. Stephenson 1941
1 specimen
Graphidula sp.
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
Pyrifusus sp. Conrad 1858
2 specimens
Pyrifusus sp.
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turbinellidae
Napulus sp. Stephenson 1941
1 specimen
Napulus sp.
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Sargana sp. Stephenson 1923
2 specimens
Sargana sp.
Gastropoda - Ranellidae
Eutritonium sp. Cossmann 1904
1 specimen
synonym of Charonia
Eutritonium sp.
Gastropoda - Xenophoridae
Xenophora leprosa (Morton 1834)
1 specimen
recombined as Xenophora (Endoptygma) leprosa
Xenophora leprosa (Morton)
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Euspira sp. Agassiz 1837
1 specimen
Euspira sp.
Gyrodes abyssinus
4 specimens
Gyrodes abyssinus (Morton)
Gyrodes petrosus
6 specimens
Gyrodes petrosus (Morton)
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Acteonidae
Nonacteonina sp. (Stephenson 1941)
1 specimen
original and current combination Nonactaeonina
Nonacteonina sp.
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Anomia (Anomia) argentaria Morton 1833
1 specimen
Anomia (Anomia) argentaria Morton
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Neitheidae
Neithea (Neitheops) quinquecostata (Sowerby 1814)
Neithea (Neitheops) quinquecostata
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gryphaeostrea vomer (Morton 1828)
1 specimen
Gryphaeostrea vomer Morton
Exogyra costata (Say 1820)
original and current combination Exogyra (Exogyra) costata
Exogyra costata Say
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Botula ripleyana
2 specimens
Botula ripleyana (Gabb)
Bivalvia - Hippuritida - Caprinidae
Caprinidae indet. d'Orbigny 1850
1 specimen
Caprinid indeterminate
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia (Brevicardium) sp. (Beyrich 1845)
1 specimen
Protocardium (Brevicardium) sp. - originally entered as "Protocardium sp."
Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae
Crassatella sp. Lamarck 1799
2 specimens
Crassatella sp.
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Megatrigoniidae
Pterotrigonia (Scabrotrigonia) thoracica (Morton 1834)
1 specimen
Pterotrigonia (Scabrotrigonia) tho
Polychaeta - Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpula sp. Linnaeus 1758
Serpula sp.
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Alabama County:Dallas
Coordinates: 32.1° North, 87.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.3° North, 65.1° 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:70.60000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Prairie Bluff Member:basal
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Stratigraphy comments: Haustator bilira assemblage zone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
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:E Carlowville; USGS # 172
Database number:4207
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 19:22:59
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]