Site 9, Moore Brothers' Farm: Early/Lower Campanian, Alabama
collected by R. Zangerl, W. Turnbull, & C. M. Barber 1946

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869
1 individual
FMNH P27383
    = Lophorhothon atopus n. gen., n. sp. Langston 1960
Langston 1960
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Alabama County:Dallas
Coordinates: 32.4° North, 87.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.0° North, 59.4° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Campanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 7
Key time interval:Early/Lower Campanian
Age range of interval:83.50000 - 70.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Selma Formation:Mooreville Chalk
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: near upper third of Mooreville profile
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:white,yellow marl
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: White to yellow marl, 5 feet below the wooded surface visible south of site 9 and near the upper third of the Mooreville profile.
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Associated major elements:all
Fragmentation:occasional
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:allochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:FMNH
Collectors:R. Zangerl, W. Turnbull, & C. M. Barber Collection dates:1946
Collection method comments: Chicago Natural History Museum. Collected by Rainer Zangerl, William Turnbull and C.M. Barber in 1946
Metadata
Also known as:ADa-1
Database number:52053
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:K. Maguire, M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-07-15 13:25:16 Last modified:2023-09-29 15:14:37
Access level:the public Released:2005-07-15 13:25:16
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

27620. R. Zangerl. 1948. The vertebrate fauna of the Selma Formation of Alabama. Part I. Introduction. Fieldiana: Geology Memoirs 3(1):1-16 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

85879 S. M. Ebersole and J. L. King. 2011. A review of non-avian dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous of Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and Tennessee. Bulletin of the Alabama Museum of Natural History 28:81-93 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
13942ETE W. Langston. 1960. The vertebrate fauna of the Selma Formation of Alabama. Part VI. The dinosaurs. Fieldiana: Geology Memoirs 3(6):315-361 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano]
78858 A. Prieto-Márquez, G. M. Erickson, and J. A. Ebersole. 2016. Anatomy and osteohistology of the basal hadrosaurid dinosaur Eotrachodon from the uppermost Santonian (Cretaceous) of southern Appalachia. PeerJ 4:e1872:1-66 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
27182 J. T. Thurmond and D. E. Jones. 1981. Fossil Vertebrates of Alabama 1-244 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
61518 D. B. Weishampel and J. B. Weishampel. 1983. Annotated localities of ornithopod dinosaurs: implications to Mesozoic paleobiogeography. The Mosasaur 1:43-87 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]