Where: Montgomery County, Alabama (32.3° N, 86.4° W: paleocoordinates 32.6° N, 55.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Mooreville Chalk Formation (Selma Group), Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)
• lower part of formation above the Tombigbee Sand Member of the Eutaw Fm.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; grainstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,
Primary reference: A. Prieto-Márquez, G. M. Erickson, and J. A. Ebersole. 2016. A primitive hadrosaurid from southeastern North America and the origin and early evolution of ‘duck-billed’ dinosaurs. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 36(2):e1054495:1-10 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 181177: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 24.08.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Eotrachodon orientalis n. gen. n. sp.
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