USGS Loc. 7165 - Salt Creek [Chickasawhay Lmst] (Oligocene of the United States)

Where: Clarke County, Alabama (31.5° N, 87.9° W: paleocoordinates 31.9° N, 82.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Chickasawhay Formation, Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Cooke

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: C.W. Cooke. REPOSITORY: USNM.

Primary reference: C. W. Cooke. 1959. Cenozoic echinoids of eastern United States. United States Geological Survey Professional Papers 321:1-106 [L. Villier/L. Villier/M. Hopkins]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 155954: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 04.05.2014, edited by Mark Uhen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Limited to echinoidea, but molluscs are probably present. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication with species-resolution identifications, but somewhat antiquated nomenclature.
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Echinoidea
 Echinolampadoida - Echinolampadidae
Echinolampas aldrichi
Echinolampas aldrichi Clark and Twitchell 1915 sea urchin
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
"Cancellaria (Trigonostoma) sp." = Trigonostoma
"Cancellaria (Trigonostoma) sp." = Trigonostoma Blainville 1827 snail
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Chlamys (Plagioctenium) gainestownensis
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Miltha cf. hillsboroensis
Miltha cf. hillsboroensis Heilprin 1887 clam