Where: Russell County, Alabama (32.4° N, 85.4° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 35.7° N, 46.9° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Eutaw Formation, Santonian (86.3 - 83.6 Ma)
• Bed 15 of 19, 3 ft. thick of 182 ft. total.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified, shelly/skeletal, argillaceous sandstone
Primary reference: L. W. Stephenson. 1956. Fossils from the Eutaw Formation, Chattahoochee River region, Alabama-Georgia. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 274-J:227-250 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 5171: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 01.09.1999
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Ostrea cretacea" = Flemingostrea cretacea
"Ostrea cretacea" = Flemingostrea cretacea Morton 1834 oyster |