West Greene, South: Late/Upper Santonian - Early/Lower Campanian, Alabama
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Actinopteri
- Aulopiformes
- Enchodontidae
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Enchodus petrosus
Cope 1874
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Otodontidae
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Lamna appendiculata
Agassiz 1835
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| recombined as Cretalamna appendiculata | |||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Anacoracidae
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Squalicorax falcatus
(Agassiz 1843)
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Alabama | County: | Greene |
| Coordinates: | 32.9° North, 88.1° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 35.5° North, 59.4° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Santonian - Early/Lower Campanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 86.30000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Selma | Formation: | Mooreville Chalk | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: middle Mooreville | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "limestone" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | carbonate indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 82044 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2008-07-21 08:58:47 | Last modified: | 2019-09-19 21:47:42 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2008-07-21 08:58:47 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 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] |