Near West Greene (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Greene County, Alabama (32.9° N, 88.1° W: paleocoordinates 36.4° N, 65.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Prairie Bluff Chalk Formation (Selma Group), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• "The stratum in which the fossils were found has been established by Dr. Walter B. Jones, state geologist, as the uppermost portion of the Selma formation of upper Cretaceous age." - therefore either Prairie Bluff Chalk or Providence Sand, and more likely the former based on geography

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

• "The layer at the place in which the excavations were made consisted of rotten limestone with a superimposed layer of drift or second bottom of the river."

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1933

Primary reference: J. J. Renger. 1935. Excavation of Cretaceous Reptiles in Alabama. The Scientific Monthly 41(6):560-565 [M. Carrano/H. Street]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 107501: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Hallie Street on 09.04.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Squamata - Mosasauridae
Tylosaurus sp.
Tylosaurus sp. Marsh 1872 mosasaur