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