Porters Creek Formation
278 distinct taxa, from 995 fossil occurrences the Paleobiology Database records under this name, spanning 66–56 Mya.
Alabama, Missouri, Tennessee, Mississippi · US
278 taxa · 995 fossils · 66–56 MyaFiled under the Midway Group. Members recorded: Matthews Landing Marl, lower, Matthews Landing, Lower.
Macrostrat places this rock in the Midway Group. Macrostrat’s own record
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32 distinct localities, where the rock is now rather than where it was laid down. Tectonics draws the world it belonged to.
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What has been found
- Turritella
- Cucullaea
- Orthosurcula
- Natica
- Athleta (Volutocorbis)
- Mesalia alabamiensis
- Venericardia (Baluchicardia) wilcoxensis
- Dentalium
- Calyptraphorus
- Falsifusus
- Amusium (Propeamussium) alabamense
- Choanopollenites
- Nucula (Nucula) mediavia
- Crassatella
- Levifusus
- Corbula
- Exilia pergracilis
- Pseudolatirus tortilis
- Agaronia
- Euspira
- Venericardia
- Flabellum conoideum
- Jupiteria
- Latirus
- Strepsidura
- Gemmula (Coronia)
- Pitar
- Pleurotomella
- Pseudoliva
- Turris
- Cadulus
- Eupleura
- Momipites
- Ostrea pulaskensis
- Polinices eminulus
- Rotularia
- Scaphella
- Architectonica
- Hercoglossa ulrichi
- Lacunaria
The 40 most often recorded, of 278.
What else lived thenRank the rock of a period
Counts are of occurrence records, which measure the rock and the fieldwork together.