Chicasabogue Creek: Hemphillian, Alabama

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri - Scombriformes
Scombroidei indet. Bleeker 1859
Mammalia - Cetacea - Platanistidae
Mammalia - Protoceratidae
Mammalia - Cervidae
Mammalia - Camelidae
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae
Reptilia - Crocodilia
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Alabama County:Mobile
Coordinates: 30.8° North, 88.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.2° North, 85.0° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Neogene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Hemphillian
Age range of interval: 9.4 - 4.7 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Citronelle Member:lower
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray unlithified silty,carbonaceous claystone
Secondary lithology: unlithified sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: dark, gray, carbonaceous silty clay and clayey sand
Environment:lagoonal
Geology comments: lagoon, estuary or marsh
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:81498
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2008-06-27 13:29:42 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2008-06-27 13:29:42
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
1998. W. C. Isphording and G. M. Lamb. 1971. Age and origin of the Citronelle Formation in Alabama. Geological Society America Bulletin 82:775-780 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]