Lover's Leap: Priabonian, Arkansas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Teredinidae
Teredo sp. Linnaeus 1758
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Scyliorhinidae
Abdounia enniskilleni (White 1956)
1 element
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
? Negaprion gibbesi (Woodward 1889)
1 element
recombined as Carcharhinus gibbesii
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Carchariidae
Carcharias hopei (Agassiz 1843)
2 elements
Reptilia - Palaeophiidae
Pterosphenus schucherti Lucas 1898
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Arkansas County:Cross
Coordinates: 35.2° North, 90.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.9° North, 82.6° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Priabonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 3
Key time interval:Priabonian
Age range of interval:38.00000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Jackson
Stratigraphy comments: late Eocene
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandy mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: mudstones and sandy mudstones
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:45641
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-11-20 13:05:46 Last modified:2012-01-04 13:17:30
Access level:the public Released:2004-11-20 13:05:46
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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]

Secondary references:

36198 J. W. Westgate. 2008. Eocene (Jacksonian) estuarine vertebrate faunas from Crowley's Ridge, Arkansas. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 40(3):3 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]