west of Site 4, Moore Brothers' Farm: Early/Lower Campanian, Alabama
collected by R. Zangerl 1946

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Nodosauridae
Nodosauridae indet. Marsh 1890
1 specimen
FMNH P27469, ilium
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: below level of Lophorhothon
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:poor
Abundance in sediment:rare
Articulated whole bodies:none
Associated major elements:none
Disassociated major elements:none
Disassociated minor elements:none
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:allochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collectors:R. Zangerl Collection dates:1946
Metadata
Database number:52054
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:K. Maguire
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-07-15 13:35:58 Last modified:2023-09-29 15:15:06
Access level:the public Released:2005-07-15 13:35:58
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

13942.ETE 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]

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]
27182 J. T. Thurmond and D. E. Jones. 1981. Fossil Vertebrates of Alabama 1-244 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
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]