Highway AL 26, west: Late/Upper Santonian - Middle Campanian, Alabama
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Mitsukurinidae
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Scapanorhynchus rhaphiodon
(Agassiz 1843)
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| recombined as Lamna raphiodon | |||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Alabama | County: | Russell |
| Coordinates: | 32.3° North, 85.4° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 34.2° North, 57.0° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Santonian - Middle Campanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 86.30000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Blufftown |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
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: | 82050 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2008-07-21 09:28:37 | Last modified: | 2021-02-19 07:53:03 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2008-07-21 09:28:37 |
| 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] |