Highway AL 66, east (Cretaceous to of the United States)
Where: Dallas County, Alabama (32.3° N, 87.5° W: paleocoordinates 34.9° N, 59.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Demopolis Chalk Formation (Selma Group), Middle Campanian to Middle Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• bed-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 82046: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 21.07.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Actinopteri | |
Enchodus petrosus Cope 1874 | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Scapanorhynchus rhaphiodon Agassiz 1843 goblin shark | |
Squalicorax pristodontus Agassiz 1835 crow shark |