Choctaw Road: Late/Upper Santonian - Early/Lower Campanian, Alabama

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri - Crossognathiformes - Pachyrhizodontidae
Pachyrhizodus caninus Cope 1872
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Alabama County:Greene
Coordinates: 32.8° North, 87.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.4° North, 59.3° 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:bed
Stratigraphy comments: lower 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:82052
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2008-07-21 12:06:55 Last modified:2019-09-19 21:52:04
Access level:the public Released:2008-07-21 12:06:55
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]