Highway 22, west of Orrville (Cretaceous to of the United States)

Where: Dallas County, Alabama (32.3° N, 87.3° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 37.0° N, 51.1° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Demopolis Chalk Formation (Selma Group), Middle Campanian to Middle Campanian (83.6 - 72.2 Ma)

• Only "Selma Chalk" given, but highly likely from Demopolis Chalk.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: poorly lithified chalk

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: G. A. Cooper. 1973. Fossil and recent Cancellothyridacea (Brachiopoda). Tohoku University, Science Reports, 2nd Series (Geology), Special Volume 6:371-390 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 190363: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.12.2017

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Cancellothyrididae
Cricosia filosa Conrad 1866