West Greene, South (Cretaceous to of the United States)

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
 Lamniformes - Anacoracidae
Squalicorax falcatus Agassiz 1843 crow shark
 Lamniformes - Otodontidae
"Lamna appendiculata" = Cretalamna appendiculata
"Lamna appendiculata" = Cretalamna appendiculata Agassiz 1835 mackerel shark
Actinopteri
 Aulopiformes - Enchodontidae