Donald Farm: Santonian, Alabama

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri - Crossognathiformes - Pachyrhizodontidae
Pachyrhizodus caninus Cope 1872
Applegate 1970
Actinopteri - Aulopiformes - Dercetidae
Stratodus apicalis Cope 1872
Applegate 1970
Chondrichthyes - Chimaeriformes - Edaphodontidae
Edaphodon barberi n. sp. Applegate 1970
Applegate 1970
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Alabama County:Dallas
Coordinates: 32.4° North, 87.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.8° North, 56.3° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Santonian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 6
Key time interval:Santonian
Age range of interval:86.30000 - 83.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Selma
Stratigraphic resolution:group
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: chalk
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:FMNH
Metadata
Database number:81926
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2008-07-18 13:25:19 Last modified:2019-09-19 21:38:13
Access level:the public Released:2008-07-18 13:25:19
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
27620. R. Zangerl. 1948. The vertebrate fauna of the Selma Formation of Alabama. Part I. Introduction. Fieldiana: Geology Memoirs 3(1):1-16 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

27582 S. P. Applegate. 1970. The vertebrate fauna of the Selma Formation of Alabama, part VIII, the fishes. Fieldiana: Geology Memoires 3(8):385-433 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Clapham]