220 The Upper Cretaceous Floras of the World 



The Tuscaloosa formation is overlain by a marine series of deposits 



constituting the Eutaw formation. Its basal beds contain some traces of 



the vegetation of the nearby land and a considerable number of such 



forms have already been enumerated for the Georgia region. In Alabama 



the following have been recorded from the Lower Eutaw : 



Andromeda parlatorii Heer 



Araucaria bladcnensis Berry 



Bauhinia alabamensis Berry 



Brachyphyllum macrocarpum formosum Berry 



Cephalotaxospermum carolinianum Berry 



Doryanthites cretacea Berry 



Eucalyptus havanensis Berry a 



Laurus plutonia Heer 



Malapoenna horrellensis Berry 



Sequoia ambigua Heer 



Sequoia reichenbachi (Geinitz) Heer 



The Eutaw formation is succeeded by the paleobotanically unfossil- 

 iferous Selma .Chalk an d the latter is overlain throughout a part of the 

 eastern Gulf area by the Ripley formation. In the Chattahoochee drain- 

 age basin and eastward in Georgia the Ripley becomes littoral in char- 

 acter, and a few fossil plants have already been recorded in the account 

 of the Cretaceous floras of Georgia. Only two identifiable species are 

 recorded from the Ripley of Alabama. These are Bauhinia ripleyensis 

 Berry and Platanus sp. Northward in western Tennessee where the 

 Ripley deposits are also shallow-water near-shore sands a few fossil plants 

 have been found. These are Myrica ripleyensis Berry, Sabalites sp., and 

 Salix eutawensis Berry. 



TEXAS 



The presence of fossil plants in the Woodbine sands along the Red 

 River in northeastern Texas was announced by Shumard in 1868. 2 The 

 first account of plants from these beds was published in Knowlton 3 in 

 1901 in Hill's great work on Texas, 4 and was based on collections made 



1 Also recorded from deposits of this age in Western Tennessee. 



2 Shumard, B. F., Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis, vol. ii, 1868, p. 140. 



3 Knowlton, F. H., in Hill (op. cit), pp. 314-318, pi. xxxix. 



4 Hill, R. T., Geography and Geology of the Black and Grand Prairies. 21st 

 Ann. Rept. U. S. Geol. Survey, pt. vii, 1901. 



