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East side of Jaycee Park Road, Livingston (AL6)

US / AL
32.59000, -88.19000View on MapOpen in Google Maps
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East side of Jaycee Park Road, Livingston (AL6) is a fossil collection site in Sumter, Alabama, cataloged in the Paleobiology Database. Fossils here come from the Prairie Bluff Formation, dated to the Late Maastrichtian (72.2–66 million years ago). The depositional environment is recorded as carbonate indet. Documented finds include Pyrisinella meniscacantha.

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Fossil

Geologic setting

Formation
Prairie Bluff
Geologic interval
Late Maastrichtian
Age
72.2–66 Ma
Depositional environment
carbonate indet.
Recorded occurrences
1
Locality notes

Specimens collected in situ and as float from mollusc-rich chalk exposed in 1 m-high cut approximately 100 m long and stripped surface approximately 10 m wide cutting diagonally across approximately 2 m thickness above the cut. Just north of Lake Ridge Apartments on east side of Jaycee Park Road, Livingston, Sumter County. 32º35.4'N, 88º11.4'W, Livingston 7.5’ Quadrangle.

Fossils found here

Pyrisinella meniscacantha
Gymnolaemata · Pyrisinellidae

Records and references

Data: Paleobiology Database collection 214078 (CC BY 4.0)view the source record

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Coordinates: 32.59000, -88.19000

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