Highway AL 26, west (Cretaceous to of the United States)

Where: Russell County, Alabama (32.3° N, 85.4° W: paleocoordinates 34.2° N, 57.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Blufftown Formation, Late/Upper Santonian to Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 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 82050: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 21.07.2008

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Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Lamniformes - Mitsukurinidae
Scapanorhynchus rhaphiodon Agassiz 1843 goblin shark