Little Stave Creek: Bartonian, Alabama

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Angiospermae - Arecaceae
Nypa echinata (Muller 1968)
Frederiksen 1980
original and current combination Spinizonocolpites echinatus
Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Myliobatidae
Rhinoptera sp. Cuvier 1829
Thurmond and Jones 1981
Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Dasyatidae
Dasyatis sp. Rafinesque 1810
Thurmond and Jones 1981
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes - Rajidae
Raja sp. Linnaeus 1758
Thurmond and Jones 1981
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Scyliorhinidae
Abdounia recticona
Westgate 2001
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
Negaprion gibbsi
Westgate 2001
Rhizoprionodon sp. Whitley 1929
Thurmond and Jones 1981
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Hemigaleidae
Hemipristis curvatus Dames 1883
Westgate 2001
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Galeocerdidae
Galeocerdo latidens (Agassiz 1835)
Westgate 2001
Chondrichthyes - Orectolobiformes - Ginglymostomatidae
Ginglymostoma serra (Leidy 1877)
Thurmond and Jones 1981
recombined as Nebrius serra
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Mitsukurinidae
Striatolamia macrota (Agassiz 1838)
Westgate 2001
original and current combination Otodus macrotus
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Alopiidae
Alopias latidens Leriche 1909
Thurmond and Jones 1981
subspecies alabamensis
Acipenseriformes
Cylindracanthus acus (Cope 1870)
Thurmond and Jones 1981
Mammalia - Carnivora - Miacidae
Vulpavus sp. Marsh 1871
Westgate 2001
    = Miacidae indet. Cope 1880
Schoch 1985
Mammalia - Sirenia - Sirenia
Sirenia indet. Illiger 1811
Arata and Jackson 1965
Actinopteri - Sciaenidae
Corvina intermedia (Koken 1884)
Frizzell and Dante 1965
Actinopteri - Tetraodontiformes - Diodontidae
? Diodon sp. Linnaeus 1758
Thurmond and Jones 1981
Actinopteri - Scombriformes - Trichiuridae
Trichiurus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Thurmond and Jones 1981
Trichiurides sp. Winkler 1874
Thurmond and Jones 1981
Actinopteri - Elopiformes - Phyllodontidae
Phyllodus sp. Agassiz 1839
Thurmond and Jones 1981
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Alabama County:Clarke
Coordinates: 31.5° North, 87.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.1° North, 79.1° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Bartonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 3
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval:Bartonian
Age range of interval:41.30000 - 38.00000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Gosport
Stratigraphy comments: said to be Bartonian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marginal marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Taxonomic list comments:said to be "Bartonian, chronozone 18"
Metadata
Database number:16848
Authorizer:J. Alroy, M. Uhen Enterer:J. Alroy, M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2002-05-15 00:00:00 Last modified:2017-03-20 12:44:49
Access level:the public Released:2002-05-15 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

3052. R. M. Schoch. 1985. Preliminary description of a new late Paleocene land-mammal fauna from South Carolina, U.S.A. Postilla 196:1-13 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

13398 A. A. Arata and G. C. Jackson. 1965. Cenozoic vertebrates from the Gulf Coastal Plain - I. Tulane Studies in Geology 3(3):175-177 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
73385 N. O. Frederiksen. 1980. Sporomorphs from the Jackson Group (Upper Eocene) and Adjacent Strata of Mississippi and Western Alabama. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1084:1-75 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
28160 D. L. Frizzell and J. H. Dante. 1965. Otoliths of some early Cenozoic fishes of the Gulf Coast. Journal of Paleontology 39(4):687-718 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
27182 J. T. Thurmond and D. E. Jones. 1981. Fossil Vertebrates of Alabama 1-244 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
12028 J. W. Westgate. 2001. Paleoecology and biostratigraphy of marginal marine gulf coast Eocene vertebrate localities. Eocene Biodiversity: Unusual Occurrences and Rarely Sampled Habitats 263-297 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]