Where: Montgomery County, Alabama (31.9° N, 87.9° W: paleocoordinates 34.5° N, 59.6° 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
• group of beds-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 82053: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 21.07.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri | |
Enchodus petrosus Cope 1874 | |
Pachyrhizodus caninus Cope 1872 | |
Saurodon leanus Hays 1830
Saurocephalus cf. lanciformis Harlan 1834 |