Pickens County (PROXY) (Cretaceous to of the United States)

Where: Pickens County, Alabama (33.3° N, 88.1° W: paleocoordinates 36.2° N, 60.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Selma Group, Santonian to Santonian (86.3 - 66.0 Ma)

• "Rotten Limestone"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. C. Nott

Primary reference: J. Leidy. 1870. [Remarks on Poikilopleuron valens, Clidastes intermedius, Macrosaurus proriger, Baptemys wyomingensis, and Emys stevensonianus]. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 22(1):3-5 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 84105: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 17.09.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Squamata - Mosasauridae
Clidastes intermedius n. sp. Leidy 1870 mosasaur
ANSP 9023,9024, 9029, 9092-9094