Marvyn Road section, near Uchee, bed 16. (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Russell County, Alabama (32.4° N, 85.4° W: paleocoordinates 32.3° N, 54.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Eutaw Formation, Santonian (86.3 - 83.6 Ma)

• Bed 16 of 19, 1 ft. thick of 182 ft. total.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, shelly/skeletal sandstone

• sandstone, hard, fine grained; base and top slightly irregular; contains many shells of [fossils].

Primary reference: L. W. Stephenson. 1956. Fossils from the Eutaw Formation, Chattahoochee River region, Alabama-Georgia. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 274-J:227-250 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 5170: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 01.09.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
"Ostrea cretacea" = Flemingostrea cretacea
"Ostrea cretacea" = Flemingostrea cretacea Morton 1834 oyster
 Pectinida - Anomiidae