Sohl and Koch OFR # 118 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Livingston; USGS # 25469

Where: Sumter County, Alabama (32.6° N, 88.2° W: paleocoordinates 36.1° N, 66.1° W)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Discoscaphites conradi ammonoid zone, middle Member (Prairie Bluff Formation), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• Haustator bilira assemblage zone

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray, silty, sandy lime mudstone

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: original calcite

Reposited in the USGS

Collection methods: bulk,

• Sohl collection

Primary reference: N. F. Sohl and C. F. Koch. 1983. Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) Mollusca from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the East Gulf Coastal Plain. USGS Open File Report 83-451:1-239 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 4185: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 14.08.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpula sp. Linnaeus 1758
Serpula sp.
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda -
Neogastropoda indet. Thiele 1929 snail
Neogastropods indeterminate
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Plicatulidae
Plicatula (Plicatula) mullicaensis scallop
Plicatula (Plicatula) mullicaensis
 Pectinida - Limidae
"Lima (Lima) acutilineata" = Limatula acutilineata, "Lima (Lima) reticulata" = Pseudolimea reticulata
"Lima (Lima) acutilineata" = Limatula acutilineata Conrad 1858 file clam
Lima (Lima) acutilineata Conrad
"Lima (Lima) reticulata" = Pseudolimea reticulata Forbes 1845 file clam
Lima (Lima) reticulata Lyell & For
 Pectinida - Dimyidae
Atreta melleni scallop
Atreta melleni (Stephenson)
 Ostreida - Flemingostreidae
Cubitostrea tecticosta Gabb 1860 oyster
Cubitostrea tecticosta (Gabb)
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
"Ostrea mesenterica" = Lopha mesenterica
"Ostrea mesenterica" = Lopha mesenterica Morton 1834 oyster
Ostrea mesenterica Morton
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Bryozoa (encrusting)
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Bryozoa (branching)
Echinoidea
  -
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
Echinoid sp. - originally entered as "Echinoidea sp."