ammonites
Marvyn Road section, near Uchee, bed 7. (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Russell County, Alabama (32.4° N, 85.4° W: paleocoordinates 32.3° N, 54.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Bed 7 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 of [fossil].

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 5178: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 01.09.1999

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