Marvyn Road section, near Uchee, bed 15. (Cretaceous of the United States)

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

• sand, light brown, clayey, contains many shells.

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
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
"Ostrea cretacea" = Flemingostrea cretacea
"Ostrea cretacea" = Flemingostrea cretacea Morton 1834 oyster