Sawyerville, Alabama: Santonian, Alabama
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Chondrichthyes
- Myliobatiformes
- Dasyatidae
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Hypolophus sp.
Muller and Henle 1837
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Thurmond and Jones 1981 | ||||||
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Baculitidae
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Baculites arculus
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Muniericeratidae
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Pseudoschloenbachia mexicana
(Renz 1936)
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Alabama | County: | Hale |
| Coordinates: | 32.8° North, 87.7° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 33.3° North, 56.7° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Santonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 6 | *Epoch: | Senonian |
| Key time interval: | Santonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 86.30000 - 83.60000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Eutaw | Member: | Tombigbee Sand |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | glauconitic sandstone |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 3587 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Patzkowsky, M. Uhen | Enterer: | K. Layou, M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 1999-08-05 08:21:29 | Last modified: | 2021-06-28 19:58:10 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1999-08-05 08:21:29 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 214. | W. J. Kennedy and W. A. Cobban. 1991. Upper Cretaceous (upper Santonian) Boehmoceras fauna from the Gulf Coast region of the United States. Geological Magazine 128(2):167-189 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou] |
Secondary references:
| 27182 | J. T. Thurmond and D. E. Jones. 1981. Fossil Vertebrates of Alabama 1-244 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |