Lauderdale County: Early Mississippian, Alabama
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Alabama | County: | Lauderdale |
| Coordinates: | 34.9° North, 87.7° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 34.2° South, 57.9° West (Wright 2013) | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Carboniferous | Epoch: | Mississippian |
| Stage: | Tournaisian | 10 m.y. bin: | Carboniferous 1 |
| Key time interval: | Early Mississippian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 358.9 - 346.7 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Fort Payne | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: between the Chattanooga Shale and the Fort Payne Chert |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 84106 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2008-09-17 09:41:14 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2008-09-17 09:41:13 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 27182. | J. T. Thurmond and D. E. Jones. 1981. Fossil Vertebrates of Alabama 1-244 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |