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
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Nodosauridae indet.
Marsh 1890
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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] |