Also known as Cedarville
Where: Hale County, Alabama (32.6° N, 87.7° W: paleocoordinates 35.1° N, 59.1° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Mooreville Chalk Formation (Selma Group), Late/Upper Santonian to Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 70.6 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: R. Zangerl. 1953. The vertebrate fauna of the Selma Formation of Alabama. Part III. The turtles of the family Protostegidae. Fieldiana: Geology Memoirs 3(3):63-133 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 81930: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 18.07.2008, edited by Matthew Carrano
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
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"Protostega dixie" = Protostega gigas
"Protostega dixie" = Protostega gigas Cope 1871 sea turtle | |
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Actinopteri | |
Protosphyraena sp.1 Leidy 1857 | |
Cimolichthys nepaholica1 Cope 1872 | |
Xiphactinus audax1 Leidy 1870 |