Site AGr-43: Late/Upper Santonian - Early/Lower Campanian, Alabama
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Trionychidae
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Trionychidae indet.
Gray 1825
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Alabama | County: | Greene |
| Coordinates: | 32.8° North, 87.9° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 35.4° North, 59.3° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Santonian - Early/Lower Campanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 86.30000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Eutaw | Member: | Tombigbee Sand |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandstone |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
| Collection method comments: specimens at University of Alabama Museum | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Choctaw Bluff | ||
| Database number: | 176940 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Holroyd | Enterer: | P. Holroyd |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2016-03-09 00:12:41 | Last modified: | 2016-09-16 13:18:32 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2016-03-09 00:12:41 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 58398. | S. E. Jasinski. 2013. Review of the fossil Trionychidae (Testudines) from Alabama, including the oldest record of trionychid turtles from eastern North America. Bulletin of the Alabama Museum of Natural History 31(2):46-59 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd] |
Secondary references:
| 60379 | T. Ikejiri, J. A. Ebersole, H. L. Blewitt and S. M. Ebersole. 2013. An overview of Late Cretaceous vertebrates from Alabama. In J. Ebersole & T. Ikejiri (ed.), Contributions to Alabama Cretaceous Paleontology. Bulletin of the Alabama Museum of Natural History 31(1):46-71 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |