Near Eutaw (Cretaceous to of the United States)

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

• "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 107502: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Hallie Street on 09.04.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Protostegidae
Protostega sp. Cope 1871 sea turtle