Turkey Creek: Bartonian, Alabama
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Chondrichthyes
- Myliobatiformes
- Myliobatidae
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cf. Aetomylaeus sp.
Garman 1908
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Chondrichthyes
- Myliobatiformes
- Rhinopteridae
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Rhinoptera sp.
Cuvier 1829
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Chondrichthyes
- Rhinopristiformes
- Pristidae
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Pristis sp.
Linck 1790
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Chondrichthyes
- Carcharhiniformes
- Carcharhinidae
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Rhizoprionodon sp.
Whitley 1929
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Abdounia recticona
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Abdounia enniskilleni
(White 1956)
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Chondrichthyes
- Carcharhiniformes
- Scyliorhinidae
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Scyliorhinus sp.
Blainville 1816
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Chondrichthyes
- Carcharhiniformes
- Galeocerdidae
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Physogaleus secundus
(Winkler 1876)
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| recombined as Physodon secundus | |||||||
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Galeocerdo eaglesomei
White 1926
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Mitsukurinidae
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Striatolamia macrota
(Agassiz 1838)
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| recombined as Odontaspis macrota | |||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Odontaspididae
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Brachycarcharias lerichei
(Casier 1946)
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Otodontidae
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Otodus obliquus
Agassiz 1838
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Lamnidae
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Carcharodon auriculatus
(Blainville 1818)
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Alabama | County: | Choctaw |
| Coordinates: | 31.8° North, 88.3° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 32.5° North, 79.4° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| Stage: | Bartonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 3 |
| Key time interval: | Bartonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 41.20000 - 37.71000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Lisbon |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | coarse,glauconitic sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: glauconitic, coarse sands with interbedded, silty and glauconitic claystone | |
| Environment: | coastal indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 205834 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2019-10-24 18:16:31 | Last modified: | 2019-10-24 18:16:31 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2019-10-24 18:16:31 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 70599. | H. M. Maisch, M. A. Becker, B. W. Raines and J. A. Chamberlain. 2014. Chondrichthyans from the Tallahatta-Lisbon Formatino contact (Middle Eocene), Silas, Choctaw County, Alabama. Paludicola 9(4):183-2009 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/P. Wagner] |