Where: Greene County, Alabama (31.4° N, 87.8° W: paleocoordinates 34.0° N, 59.7° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Mooreville Chalk Formation (Selma Group), Late/Upper Santonian to Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 70.6 Ma)
• or uppermost Eutaw
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: S. P. Applegate. 1970. The vertebrate fauna of the Selma Formation of Alabama, part VIII, the fishes. Fieldiana: Geology Memoires 3(8):385-433 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 82043: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 21.07.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
"Isurus mantelli" = Cretoxyrhina mantelli
"Isurus mantelli" = Cretoxyrhina mantelli Agassiz 1835 mackerel shark | |
Squalicorax falcatus Agassiz 1843 crow shark | |
Scapanorhynchus rhaphiodon Agassiz 1843 goblin shark
Scapanorhynchus rapax Quaas 1902 goblin shark | |
"Lamna appendiculata" = Cretalamna appendiculata
"Lamna appendiculata" = Cretalamna appendiculata Agassiz 1835 mackerel shark |