Hale's Farm: Late/Upper Santonian - Early/Lower Campanian, Alabama

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri - Tselfatiiformes - Plethodidae
Bananogmius cf. polymicrodus (Stewart 1898)
synonym of Pentanogmius evolutus
Actinopteri - Albuliformes - Albulidae
Albula dunklei Applegate 1970
Actinopteri - Aulopiformes - Enchodontidae
Enchodus petrosus Cope 1874
Actinopteri - Ichthyodectiformes - Ichthyodectidae
Ichthyodectes cf. ctenodon Cope 1870
Xiphactinus audax (Leidy 1870)
Actinopteri - Ichthyodectiformes - Saurodontidae
Saurodon leanus Hays 1830
see common names

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
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:82054
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2008-07-21 12:28:07 Last modified:2019-09-19 21:53:00
Access level:the public Released:2008-07-21 12:28:07
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]