AMg-1, Montgomery (PROXY) (Cretaceous of the United States)

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
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Eotrachodon orientalis n. gen. n. sp.
Eotrachodon orientalis n. gen. n. sp. Prieto-Márquez et al. 2016 hadrosaurid
MSC 7949