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top, southeastern end of the Madison Quarry

US / AL
34.70000, -86.77000View on MapOpen in Google Maps
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top, southeastern end of the Madison Quarry is a fossil collection site in Madison, Alabama, cataloged in the Paleobiology Database. Fossils here come from the Tuscumbia Limestone, dated to the Meramecian (342.9–335.4 million years ago). The depositional environment is recorded as shallow subtidal indet. Documented finds include Tuscumbiacrinus madisonensis, Echinoidea, Acrocyathus proliferus.

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Fossil

Geologic setting

Formation
Tuscumbia Limestone
Geologic interval
Meramecian
Age
342.9–335.4 Ma
Depositional environment
shallow subtidal indet.
Recorded occurrences
3
Locality notes

"colected from the top, southeastern end of the Madison, Alabama, quarry in southwestern Madison County"

Fossils found here

Tuscumbiacrinus madisonensis
Crinoidea · Paragaricocrinidae
Echinoidea
Echinoidea
Acrocyathus proliferus
Anthozoa · Acrocyathidae

Records and references

Data: Paleobiology Database collection 241998 (CC BY 4.0)view the source record

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Coordinates: 34.70000, -86.77000

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