USGS M 31419 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Pickens County, Alabama (33.2° N, 88.3° W: paleocoordinates 35.9° N, 59.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Mooreville Chalk Formation, Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)

Environment/lithology: carbonate

Reposited in the USGS

Primary reference: W. J. Kennedy and W. A. Cobban. 1991. Upper Cretaceous (upper Santonian) Boehmoceras fauna from the Gulf Coast region of the United States. Geological Magazine 128(2):167-189 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3585: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 05.08.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Baculites capensis Woods 1906 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Diplomoceratidae
Glyptoxoceras sp. Spath 1925 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Muniericeratidae
Pseudoschloenbachia mexicana Renz 1936 ammonite