Upatoi Creek: Santonian, Georgia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Pseudoscapanorhynchidae
Cretodus semiplicatus (Agassiz 1843)
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Georgia County:Chattahoochee
Coordinates: 32.4° North, 84.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.3° North, 54.0° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Santonian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 6
Key time interval:Santonian Brachiopod zone:
Age range of interval:86.30000 - 83.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Eutaw
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Stratigraphy comments: "Santonian member" of the formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:trace
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:152687
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:J. Villari
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:vertebrate
Created:2013-11-30 00:19:39 Last modified:2021-07-16 18:06:55
Access level:the public Released:2013-11-30 00:19:39
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

28024. D. R. Schwimmer, G. E. Hooks, and B. Johnson. 2002. Revised taxonomy, age, and geographic range of the large lamniform shark Cretodus semplicatus. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22(3):704-707 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/P. Wagner]