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