Salt Mountain [Salt Mountain Lmst]

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Formation

Salt Mountain Limestone

Geologic interval

Thanetian

Age

59.24–56 Ma

Depositional environment

reef, buildup or bioherm

Recorded occurrences

28

Data: Paleobiology Database collection 34652 (CC BY 4.0) — view the source record

• MGS 77 — FossilAL · 4.5 mi
• USGS Loc. 7165 - Salt Creek [Chickasawhay Lmst] — FossilAL · 6.8 mi
• M 649 — FossilAL · 14.9 mi
• USGS Loc. 10050 - Gainestown [Chickasawhay Lmst] — FossilAL · 13.2 mi
• Suggsville — FossilAL · 17 mi
• old Fort St. Stephens blusff on the tombigbee river, Alabama — FossilAL · 20.3 mi

• 0.5 miles northeast of Pelham, Bessemer Iron District — FossilAL
• 1 3/8 mi N of Fort Deposit, in cut of Louisville and Nashville Railroad — FossilAL
• 1.75 miles northeast of New Hope Church, north of Pelham — FossilAL
• 3.2km south of Melvin, 137m east of N-S Road — FossilAL
• 362-i. Cahaba Valley, south of New Hope Church, 7 miles north Pelham — FossilAL
• about half a mile southwest of Elliotsville Church — FossilAL

• ACh-14 — FossilAL
• ACl-12 — FossilAL
• ACon-3 — FossilAL
• ACon-6 — FossilAL
• AGe-1 — FossilAL
• AGr-5 — FossilAL

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