Turks Cave: Early/Lower Oligocene, Alabama
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Echinoidea
- Clypeasteroida
- Laganidae
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Peronella crustuloides
(Morton 1833)
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Cooke 1942 | ||||||
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Echinoidea
- Clypeasteroida
- Neolaganidae
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Laganum floridanum n. sp.
Clark and Twitchell 1915
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| recombined as Durhamella floridanum | |||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Alabama |
| Coordinates: | 31.3° North, 86.8° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 31.5° North, 80.3° West |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Oligocene |
| Stage: | Rupelian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 4 |
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Oligocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 33.90000 - 27.82000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Vicksburg |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 203470 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2019-08-16 16:18:42 | Last modified: | 2019-08-16 16:18:42 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2019-08-16 16:18:42 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 16640. | W. B. Clark and M. W. Twitchell. 1915. The Mesozoic and Cenozoic Echinodermata of the United States. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 54:1-341 [L. Villier/J. Millet/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 32917 | C. W. Cooke. 1942. Cenozoic irregular echinoids of the Eastern United States. Journal of Paleontology 16:1-62 [L. Villier/L. Villier] |