Melvin, southeast of: Priabonian, Alabama
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata
- Terebratulida
- Cancellothyrididae
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Terebratulina alabamensis
Cooper 1988
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Cooper 1988 | |||||||||
Acipenseriformes
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Cylindracanthus rectus
(Agassiz 1843)
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White 1956 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
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Hadrianus schucherti n. sp.
Hay 1899
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Hay 1899 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
recombined as Cymatholcus schucherti | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Palaeophiidae
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Pterosphenus schucherti n. gen., n. sp.
Lucas 1898
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Lucas 1898 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
USNM 4047 (holotype), about 40 vertebrae | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Basilosauridae
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Pontogeneus brachyspondylus
(Müller 1849)
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Kellogg 1936 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
= Cynthiacetus maxwelli
Uhen 2005
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Uhen 2005 | |||||||||
Zygorhiza kochii
(Carus 1847)
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Kellogg 1936 | 9 specimens | ||||||||
Dorudon sp.
Gibbes 1845
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Hay 1899 | |||||||||
= Zygorhiza kochii
Carus 1847
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Kellogg 1936 | |||||||||
Basilosaurus cetoides
(Owen 1839)
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Kellogg 1936 | 4 specimens | ||||||||
= Alabamornis gigantea n. gen., n. sp.
Abel 1906
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Abel 1906 | |||||||||
synonym of Basilosaurus cetoides | ||||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Odontaspidida
- Isuridae
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Oxyrhina praecursor
Leriche 1942
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White 1956 | |||||||||
var. americana | ||||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Carcharhiniformes
- Sphyrnidae
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Sphyrna gilmorei n. sp.
Leriche 1942
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Leriche 1942 | |||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Carcharhiniformes
- Galeocerdidae
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Galeocerdo alabamensis n. sp.
Leriche 1942
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Leriche 1942 | |||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Otodontidae
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Carcharodon angustidens
(Agassiz 1835)
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White 1956 | |||||||||
recombined as Otodus (Carcharocles) angustidens | ||||||||||
Echinoidea
- Spatangoida
- Schizasteridae
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Schizaster armiger n. sp.
Clark and Twitchell 1915
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Clark and Twitchell 1915 | |||||||||
recombined as Paraster armiger | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Alabama | County: | Choctaw |
Coordinates: | 31.9° North, 88.5° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 32.4° North, 80.6° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
Altitude: | 333 feet | ||||
Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
Stage: | Priabonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 3 |
*Period: | Early/Lower - Middle Tertiary - Early/Lower - Middle Tertiary | *Epoch: | Late/Upper Eocene - Late/Upper Eocene |
*International age/stage: | Early/Lower Priabonian - Early/Lower Priabonian | ||
Key time interval: | Priabonian | ||
Age range of interval: | 38.00000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Geological group: | Jackson | Formation: | Yazoo | Member: | Pachuta |
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Listed in Kellogg as Jackson Formation. Later, the Jackson was elevated to group status. Identification of Pachuta Member as the whale-bearing stratum based on other publications and personal observation (M. D. Uhen).
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Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | poorly lithified "mixed carbonate-siliciclastic" |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Environment: | marginal marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils,microfossils |
Articulated whole bodies: | some |
Associated major elements: | some |
Disassociated major elements: | some |
Disassociated minor elements: | some |
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | all microfossils,some macrofossils |
Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (float),surface (in situ) |
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Museum repositories: | USNM |
Metadata
Also known as: | Old Cocoa Post Office | ||
Database number: | 28983 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen, J. Head, M. Clapham, P. Barrett | Enterer: | M. Uhen, M. Manojlovic, J. Head, T. Cleary |
Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2003-03-09 11:25:23 | Last modified: | 2024-02-20 10:57:03 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2003-03-09 11:25:23 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
10323. | F. A. Lucas. 1900. The pelvic girdle of Zeuglodon, Basilosaurus cetoides (Owen), with notes on onther portions of the skeleton. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 23(1211):327-331 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
11980 | O. Abel. 1906. Ueber den als Beckengürtel von Zeuglodon beschriebenen Schultergürtel eines Vogels aus dem Eocän von Alabama. Centralblatt für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie 15:450-458 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
16640 | W. B. Clark and M. W. Twitchell. 1915. The Mesozoic and Cenozoic Echinodermata of the United States. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 54:1-341 [L. Villier/J. Millet/M. Uhen] | |
49378 | G. A. Cooper. 1988. Some Tertiary Brachiopods of the East Coast of the United States. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology (64)1-27 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic] | |
56098 | P. D. Gingerich. 2015. New partial skeleton and relative brain size in the Late Eocene archaeocete Zygorhiza kochii (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Pachuta Marl of Alabama, with a note on contemporaneous Pontogeneus brachyspondylus. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 32(10):161-188 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
36272 | O. P. Hay. 1899. Descriptions of two new species of tortoise from the Tertiary of the United States. Proceedings of the US National Museum 22(1181):21-24 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
8335 | R. Kellogg. 1936. A Review of the Archaeoceti. Carnegie Institution of Washington 482:1-366 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
7412 | M. A. Kosnik. 2002. personal opinion. [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik] | |
28099 | M. Leriche. 1942. Contribution a l'etude des faunes ichthyologiques marines des terrains tertiaires de la plaine cotiere Atlantique et du centre des Etats-Unis. Memoires de la Societe Geologique de France (Nouvelle Serie) 45:1-111 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
12886 | F. A. Lucas. 1898. A new snake from the Eocene of Alabama. United States National Museum Proceedings 21(1164):637-638 [J. Head/J. Head/M. Uhen] | |
27182 | J. T. Thurmond and D. E. Jones. 1981. Fossil Vertebrates of Alabama 1-244 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
12000 | M. D. Uhen. 2005. A new genus and species of archaeocete whale from Mississippi. Southeastern Geology 43(3):157-172 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
41389 | J. Velez-Juarbe and A. Wood. 2018. An early Miocene dugongine (Sirenia: Dugongidae) from Panama. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 38(5):e1511799 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
27954 | E. I. White. 1956. The Eocene fishes of Alabama. Bulletins of American Paleontology 35(156):122-152 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |