Globidens alabamaensis Gilmore, 1912

Remarks

• Collector:    Adam Armstrong

• Formation:  Taylor Group, "Red Zone" of the Ozan Marl

• Location:     Fannin County, TX

• Left maxillary section with five teeth.  The English translation of Globidens is "round tooth".

General Info

Synonyms (general synonymy)

• 1912 Globidens alabamaensis Gilmore
• 1914 Globidens alabamaensis Gilmore; Williston
• 1922 Globidens alabamaensis Gilmore; Gilmore
• 1922 Globidens alabamaensis Gilmore; Abel
• 1923 Globidens alabamaensis Gilmore; Camp
• 1924 Globidens alabamaensis Gilmore; Dollo
• 1928 Globidens alabamaensis Gilmore; Nopcsa
• 1948 Globidens alabamaensis Gilmore; Zangerl
• 1954 Globidens alabamaensis Gilmore; McDowell & Bogert
• 1956 Globidens alabamaensis Gilmore; Romer
• 1960 Globidens alabamaensis Gilmore; Edmund
• 1960 Globidens alabamaensis Gilmore; Kauffman & Kesling
• 1968 Globidens alabamaensis Gilmore; Russell
• 2001 Globidens alabamaensis Gilmore; McKinzie, Morin, & Swiatovy

Stratigraphic Occurrence

• Mooreville Chalk of Alabama and Mississippi
• Taylor Group, Ozan Marl ("Red Zone") of northeast Texas
• Taylor Group, Sprinkle Marl of central Texas
• Pierre Shale, Sharon Springs Member of South Dakota
• Craie d'Oburg of Belgium

Age

• Globidens alabamaensis Gilmore occurs in the late Early to early Middle Campanian Stage (~80 mya).

Geographic Occurrence (not an all-inclusive list)

• Dallas County, AL
• Fall River County, SD
• Fannin County, TX
• Lee County, MS
• Mons Basin, Belgium
• Travis County, TX

Remarks

       For more information, see:

• Gilmore, C. W.  1912.  A New Mosasauroid Reptile from the Cretaceous of Alabama.  United States National Museum Proceedings 41, p. 479; plates 39–40.
• Russell, D. A.  1967.  Systematics and Morphology of American Mosasaurs.  Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University Bulletin 23, 144–145.