Harrell Station (Cretaceous to of the United States)

Where: Greene County, Alabama (32.4° N, 87.2° W: paleocoordinates 34.9° N, 58.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Selma Group, Late/Upper Santonian to Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 70.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. Zangerl. 1953. The vertebrate fauna of the Selma Formation of Alabama. Part IV. The turtles of the family Toxochelyidae. Fieldiana: Geology Memoirs 3(4):145-277 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 81972: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 19.07.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Pycnodontiformes - Pycnodontidae
Anomoeodus sp.3 Forir 1887
 Pachycormiformes - Pachycormidae
Protosphyraena sp.1 Leidy 1857
sp. 1
 Ichthyodectiformes - Ichthyodectidae
Xiphactinus audax1 Leidy 1870
 Crossognathiformes - Pachyrhizodontidae
Reptilia
 Squamata - Mosasauridae
Globidens alabamensis2 Gilmore 1912 mosasaur
Prognathodon sp.2 Dollo 1889 mosasaur
Clidastes propython2 Cope 1869 mosasaur
Tylosaurus sp.2 Marsh 1872 mosasaur
"Halisaurus sternbergi" = Eonatator sternbergii2 Wiman 1920 mosasaur
Platecarpus sp.2 Cope 1869 mosasaur
 Testudines - Protostegidae
Chelosphargis cf. advena3 Hay 1908 sea turtle
 Testudines - Toxochelyidae
Thinochelys lapisossea n. sp. Zangerl 1953 sea turtle
 Testudines -
Toxochelys moorevillensis Zangerl 1953 turtle
 Testudines - Pancheloniidae
Chondrichthyes
 Lamniformes - Anacoracidae
Squalicorax falcatus1 Agassiz 1843 crow shark
 Lamniformes - Mitsukurinidae
Scapanorhynchus rhaphiodon1 Agassiz 1843 goblin shark