Agr-7: Early/Lower Campanian, Alabama

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines
Prionochelys matutina Zangerl 1953
MSC 39013, MSC 3036, MSC 1719
Reptilia
Ichthyornis dispar Marsh 1872
Benito et al. 2022
MSC 2841, 13214
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Alabama County:Greene
Coordinates: 33.0° North, 88.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.7° North, 60.0° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
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:83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Mooreville Chalk
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: muddy chalk
Lithology description: Compact fossiliferous clayey chalk and chalky marl
Environment:marine indet.
Geology comments: Inner to middle neritic environments below the wave base
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: McWane Science Center (MSC) in Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Metadata
Database number:197314
Authorizer:E. Vlachos, P. Mannion Enterer:E. Vlachos, P. Mannion
Modifier:P. Mannion
Created:2018-11-02 12:52:56 Last modified:2023-08-02 07:01:29
Access level:the public Released:2018-11-02 12:52:56
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

67279. A. D. Gentry. 2018. Prionochelys matutina Zangerl, 1953 (Testudines: Pan-Cheloniidae) from the Late Cretaceous of the United States and the evolution of epithecal ossifications in marine turtles. PeerJ 6:e5876:1-34 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/P. Mannion]

Secondary references:

85525 J. Benito, A. Chen, L. E. Wilson, B.-A. S. Bhullar, D. Burnham and D. J. Field. 2022. Forty new specimens of Ichthyornis provide unprecedented insight into the postcranial morphology of crownward stem group birds. PeerJ 10:e13919 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]