USGS 17010, Catoma Creek: Late/Upper Santonian, Alabama
collected by L.W. Stephenson, C.W.Cooke, A.C. Munyan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Pseudoscapanorhynchidae
Cretodus semiplicatus (Agassiz 1843)
Schwimmer et al. 2002
Echinoidea - Cassiduloida
Hardouinia bassleri (Clark and Twitchell 1915)
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Alabama County:Montgomery
Coordinates: 32.3° North, 86.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.5° North, 55.5° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Santonian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Santonian
Age range of interval:85.80000 - 83.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Eutaw Member:Tombigbee Sand
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:USNM
Collectors:L.W. Stephenson, C.W.Cooke, A.C. Munyan
Metadata
Database number:78137
Authorizer:W. Kiessling, M. Uhen Enterer:U. Merkel, M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-01-29 05:42:53 Last modified:2018-10-25 21:31:05
Access level:the public Released:2008-01-29 05:42:53
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

26335.1% 20600C. W. Cooke. 1953. American Upper Cretaceous Echinoidea. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 254-A:1-44 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

28024 D. R. Schwimmer, G. E. Hooks, and B. Johnson. 2002. Revised taxonomy, age, and geographic range of the large lamniform shark Cretodus semplicatus. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22(3):704-707 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/P. Wagner]