Where: Greene County, Alabama (32.9° N, 88.1° W: paleocoordinates 35.5° N, 59.4° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Mooreville Chalk Formation (Selma Group), Late/Upper Santonian to Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 70.6 Ma)
• middle Mooreville
• 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 82044: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 21.07.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
Squalicorax falcatus Agassiz 1843 crow shark | |
"Lamna appendiculata" = Cretalamna appendiculata
"Lamna appendiculata" = Cretalamna appendiculata Agassiz 1835 mackerel shark | |
Actinopteri | |
Enchodus petrosus Cope 1874 |