Also known as Sohl and Koch OFR # 122
Where: Sumter County, Alabama (32.6° N, 88.2° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 38.9° N, 54.8° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Discoscaphites conradi ammonoid zone, Prairie Bluff Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• Haustator bilira assemblage zone
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, glauconitic, gray, silty lime mudstone
Size class: mesofossils
Collected by L.W. Stephenson; reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: L. W. Stephenson. 1914. Cretaceous deposits of the eastern gulf region and species of Exogyra from the eastern gulf region and the Carolinas. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 81:1-55more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 4189: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 14.08.1999, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Gyrodes abyssina moon snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Legumen planulatum venus clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Perissolax octolirata fig shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Plicatula urticosa scallop | |
Cephalopoda | |
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"Baculites carinatus" = Eubaculites carinatus, "Baculites tippaensis" = Eubaculites carinatus
"Baculites carinatus" = Eubaculites carinatus Morton 1834 ammonite
"Baculites tippaensis" = Eubaculites carinatus Morton 1834 ammonite | |
Gastropoda | |
"Gyrodes petrosa" = Gyrodes petrosus
"Gyrodes petrosa" = Gyrodes petrosus Morton 1834 moon snail | |
Napulus sp. Stephenson 1941 snail | |
Scala sillimani Morton 1834 wentletrap | |
Turritella vertebroides Morton 1834 turret shell | |
Bivalvia | |
"Ostrea larva" = Agerostrea ungulatus
"Ostrea larva" = Agerostrea ungulatus Böhm 1891 oyster | |
Ostrea peculiaris, "Ostrea plumosa" = Acutostrea plumosa
Ostrea peculiaris Conrad 1860 oyster
"Ostrea plumosa" = Acutostrea plumosa Morton 1833 oyster | |
"Gryphaea vomer" = Gryphaeostrea vomer, "Exogyra costata" = Exogyra (Exogyra) costata
"Gryphaea vomer" = Gryphaeostrea vomer Morton 1828 oyster
"Exogyra costata" = Exogyra (Exogyra) costata Say 1820 oyster | |
Plicatula (Plicatula) mullicaensis Weller 1907 scallop | |
"Cucullaea (Idonearca) capax" = Idonearca capax
"Cucullaea (Idonearca) capax" = Idonearca capax Conrad 1858 clam | |
Trigonia thoracica Morton 1834 clam | |
Legumen ellipticum Conrad 1858 venus clam | |
"Crassatellites vadosa" = Crassatella vadosa
"Crassatellites vadosa" = Crassatella vadosa Morton 1834 clam |