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
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Exogyra ponderosa
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Pycnodonte sp.
(Fischer von Waldheim 1835)
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Bivalvia
- Myalinida
- Inoceramidae
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Inoceramus sp.
Sowerby 1814
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Gastropoda
- Naticidae
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Gyrodes sp.
Conrad 1860
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Placenticeratidae
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Placenticeras sp.
Meek 1876
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Baculitidae
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Baculites cf. asper
Morton 1830
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Cephalopoda
- Nautilida
- Nautilidae
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Eutrephoceras sp.
Hyatt 1894
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Stenzeloceras sinuosum n. gen., n. sp.
Whetstone and Teichert 1978
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Chondrichthyes
- Hybodontiformes
- Ptychodontidae
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Ptychodus mortoni
Mantell 1836
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Mitsukurinidae
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Scapanorhynchus sp.
Woodward 1889
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Anacoracidae
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Squalicorax sp.
Whitley 1939
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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] |