Where: Alabama (32.3° N, 86.3° W: paleocoordinates 34.7° N, 58.6° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Mooreville Chalk Formation (Selma Group), Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• Mooreville Formation at its basal contact with the Eutah Formation.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified marl
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by K.N. Whetstone, R.C. Cason in 1971
• Repository: University of Kansas
Primary reference: K. N. Whetstone and C. Teichert. 1978. A new genus of nautiloid cephalopods from the Mooreville Formation (Cretaceous) of Alabama. Journal of Paleontology 52:440-443 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 171351: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 07.07.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Chondrichthyes | |
|
Ptychodus mortoni Mantell 1836 elasmobranch | |
|
Squalicorax sp. Whitley 1939 crow shark | |
|
Scapanorhynchus sp. Woodward 1889 goblin shark | |
| Cephalopoda | |
|
Baculites cf. asper Morton 1830 ammonite | |
|
Placenticeras sp. Meek 1876 ammonite | |
Eutrephoceras sp., Stenzeloceras sinuosum n. gen. n. sp.
Eutrephoceras sp. Hyatt 1894 nautiloid
Stenzeloceras sinuosum n. gen. n. sp. Whetstone and Teichert 1978 nautiloid | |
| Bivalvia | |
|
Exogyra ponderosa oyster
Pycnodonte sp. Fischer von Waldheim 1835 oyster | |
|
Inoceramus sp. Sowerby 1814 clam | |
| Gastropoda | |
|
Gyrodes sp. Conrad 1860 moon snail | |