Where: Greene County, Alabama (33.0° N, 88.1° W: paleocoordinates 35.6° N, 59.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Mooreville Chalk Formation (Selma Group), Late/Upper Santonian to Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 70.6 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: R. Zangerl. 1953. The vertebrate fauna of the Selma Formation of Alabama. Part III. The turtles of the family Protostegidae. Fieldiana: Geology Memoirs 3(3):63-133 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 81934: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 18.07.2008, edited by Philip Mannion
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Cimolichthys nepaholica1 Cope 1872 | |
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Enchodus cf. saevus1 Hay 1903
Enchodus petrosus1 Cope 1874 | |
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Stratodus apicalis1 Cope 1872 | |
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Pachyrhizodus caninus1 Cope 1872 | |
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Bananogmius sp.1 Whitley 1940 | |
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Xiphactinus audax1 Leidy 1870 | |
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Saurocephalus cf. lanciformis1 Harlan 1834
Saurodon leanus1 Hays 1830 | |
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Polycotylus latipinnis3 Cope 1869 plesiosaur Field Museum of Natural History (PR 187, PR 1629). According to field notes with the specimen, the fossil was collected May 22, 1949 by J. A. Robbins from a ‘‘deep gully in an old field, 1.25 miles west and 0.75 miles north west of West Green, Alabama
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"Protostega dixie" = Protostega gigas Cope 1871 sea turtle | |
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