ammonites
IU 13991 Weatherly Mountain, Huntsville (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Madison County, Alabama (34.6° N, 86.6° W: paleocoordinates 14.5° S, 28.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Mississippian (326.4 - 318.1 Ma)

• bed equivalent to lower part of Ste. Genevieve Limestone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. K. Rigby, R. Keyes, and A. Horowitz. 1979. Two new Mississippian sponges from northeastern Alabama. Journal of Paleontology 53(3):709-719 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 111888: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 29.06.2011