Montgomery County (W1/2 sec. 23): Early/Lower Campanian, Alabama
collected by K.N. Whetstone, R.C. Cason 1971

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Exogyra ponderosa
Pycnodonte sp. (Fischer von Waldheim 1835)
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus sp. Sowerby 1814
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Gyrodes sp. Conrad 1860
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Placenticeratidae
Placenticeras sp. Meek 1876
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Baculites cf. asper Morton 1830
Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Nautilidae
Eutrephoceras sp. Hyatt 1894
Stenzeloceras sinuosum n. gen., n. sp. Whetstone and Teichert 1978
(1 measurement)
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Ptychodontidae
Ptychodus mortoni Mantell 1836
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Mitsukurinidae
Scapanorhynchus sp. Woodward 1889
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Anacoracidae
Squalicorax sp. Whitley 1939
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Alabama
Coordinates: 32.3° North, 86.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.7° North, 58.6° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Campanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 7
Key time interval:Early/Lower Campanian
Age range of interval:83.50000 - 70.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Selma Formation:Mooreville Chalk
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Mooreville Formation at its basal contact with the Eutah Formation.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified marl
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:K.N. Whetstone, R.C. Cason Collection dates:1971
Collection method comments: Repository: University of Kansas
Metadata
Database number:171351
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2015-07-07 23:48:02 Last modified:2016-08-24 14:12:41
Access level:the public Released:2015-07-07 23:48:02
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

55739. K. N. Whetstone and C. Teichert. 1978. A new genus of nautiloid cephalopods from the Mooreville Formation (Cretaceous) of Alabama. Journal of Paleontology 52:440-443 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]