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Tombigbee River below Demopolis Rooster Bridge [Porters Creek Clay]

US / AL
32.53333, -87.87528View on MapOpen in Google Maps
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Tombigbee River below Demopolis Rooster Bridge [Porters Creek Clay] is a fossil collection site in Sumter, Alabama, cataloged in the Paleobiology Database. Fossils here come from the Porters Creek Formation, dated to the Danian to Selandian (66–59.24 million years ago). The depositional environment is recorded as marine indet. Documented finds include Toweius petalosus.

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Fossil

Geologic setting

Formation
Porters Creek
Geologic interval
Danian to Selandian
Age
66–59.24 Ma
Depositional environment
marine indet.
Altitude
79 feet
Recorded occurrences
1
Geology notes

ENVIRONMENT: Unknown.

Locality notes

LOCALITY: West bank of the Tombigbee River, just below the Demopolis Rooster Bridge on U.S. Highway 80, Sumpter Co., Alabama. COORDINATES: on the basis of Demopolis State Wildlife Management Area, Sumter Co., Alabama.

Fossils found here

Toweius petalosus
Coccolithophyceae · Prinsiacea

Records and references

Data: Paleobiology Database collection 122045 (CC BY 4.0)view the source record

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Coordinates: 32.53333, -87.87528

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