Where: Greene County, Alabama (32.8° N, 87.9° W: paleocoordinates 35.7° N, 60.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Selma Group, Santonian to Santonian (86.3 - 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."
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; limestone
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 107502: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Hallie Street on 09.04.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Protostega sp. Cope 1871 sea turtle |