USGS Loc. 6736 - Murder Creek [Chickasawhay Lmst] (Oligocene of the United States)

Where: Washington County, Alabama (31.1° N, 87.1° W: paleocoordinates 31.4° N, 81.8° 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 Mansfield

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: W.C Mansfield. 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 155960: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 04.05.2014

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