Hatchechubbee Creek, locality 2: Late/Upper Santonian - Middle Campanian, Alabama
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Coccolithophyceae
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Marthasterites furcatus
(Deflandre 1954)
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Schwimmer et al. 1993 | |||||||||
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Coccolithophyceae
- Calyptrosphaeraceae
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Lucianorhabdus cayeuxii
Deflandre 1959
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Schwimmer et al. 1993 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Hadrosauridae
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Hadrosauridae indet.
Cope 1869
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1 individual | |||||||||
| 9 associated limb elements, CCK-87-20-1 to 9 | ||||||||||
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= Hadrosaurinae indet.
Lambe 1918
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Schwimmer et al. 1993 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Alabama | County: | Russell |
| Coordinates: | 32.2° North, 85.1° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 34.1° North, 56.8° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Santonian - Middle Campanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 86.30000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Blufftown |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | estuary/bay |
| Geology comments: "most likely back barrier or estuarine setting duringl relatively high sea level stands" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,replaced with calcite,replaced with phosphate |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,microfossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Associated major elements: | many |
| Disassociated major elements: | many |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 54137 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | K. Maguire, M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-09-23 11:11:49 | Last modified: | 2023-09-29 15:17:04 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-09-23 11:11:49 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 82757. | D. R. Schwimmer and R. H. Best. 1989. First dinosaur fossils from Georgia, with notes on additional Cretaceous vertebrates from the state. Georgia Journal of Science 47:147-157 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 85879 | S. M. Ebersole and J. L. King. 2011. A review of non-avian dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous of Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and Tennessee. Bulletin of the Alabama Museum of Natural History 28:81-93 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 14626 | ETE | D. R. Schwimmer, G. D. Williams, J. L. Dobie and W. G. Siesser. 1993. Late Cretaceous dinosaurs from the Blufftown Formation in western Georgia and eastern Alabama. Journal of Paleontology 67(2):288-296 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano] |