Also known as 3089

Where: Russell County, Alabama (32.3° N, 85.0° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 35.6° N, 46.5° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Eutaw Formation, Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)

• "late Santonian age (Zone 16 of Sissingh, 1977)" based on calcareous nannofossils

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; poorly lithified, micaceous, sandy, calcareous mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Lousiana State University and Geological Survey of Alabama collections

Primary reference: T. M. Puckett. 1994. New Ostracoda species from an Upper Cretaceous oyster reef, northern Gulf Coastal Plain, U.S.A. Journal of Paleontology 68(6):1321-1335 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 11215: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 23.07.2001

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