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The Mooreville Chalk is a geological formation in North America, within the United States states of Alabama and Mississippi, which were part of the subcontinent of Appalachia. The strata date back to the early Santonian to the early Campanian stage of the Late Cretaceous. The chalk was formed by pelagic sediments deposited along the eastern edge of the Mississippi embayment. It is a unit of the Selma Group and consists of the upper Arcola Limestone Member and an unnamed lower member. Dinosaur, mosasaur, and primitive bird remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the Mooreville Chalk Formation.Weishampel, David B; et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution (Late Cretaceous, North America)." In: Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 574-588. .
| Cretolamna | C. appendiculata | A Lamniformes| rowspan="99" | ||
| Cretoxyrhina | C. mantelli | A Lamniformes | ||
| Edaphodon | E. barberi | Chimaera | ||
| E. mirificus | ||||
| Ischyodus | I. williamsae | A Chimaera | ||
| Odontaspis | O. cuspidata | A Lamniformes | ||
| Propenser | P. hewletti | Lamniformes | ||
| Ptychodus | P. mammillaris | ?Neoselachii incertae sedis | ||
| P. mortoni | ||||
| P. polygyrus | ||||
| Pseudocorax | P. affinis | Lamniformes | ||
| P. laevis | ||||
| Serratolamna | S. serrata | A Lamniformes | ||
| Scapanorhynchus | S. rhaphiodon | Lamniformes | ||
| S. texanus | ||||
| Squalicorax | S. falcatus | Lamniformes | ||
| S. kaupi | ||||
| Albula | A. dunklei | An Albuliformes| rowspan="99" | |||
| Bananogmius | B. crieleyi | A Tselfatiiformes | |||
| Cimolichthys | C. nepaholica | An Aulopiformes | |||
| Enchodus | E. petrosus | An Aulopiformes | |||
| E. saevus | |||||
| Hoplopteryx | Hoplopteryx sp. | A trachichthyiform | |||
| Ichthyodectes | I. ctenodon | An ichthyodectiform | |||
| Moorevillia | M. hardi | A Tselfatiiformes | |||
| Pachyrhizodus | P. caninus | A crossognathiform | |||
| Protosphyraena | P. gladius | A pachycormid | |||
| Saurodon | S. leanus | An ichthyodectiform | |||
| Stratodus | S. apicalis | An Aulopiformes | |||
| Xiphactinus | X. audax | An ichthyodectiform | |||
| Ichthyornis|style="background:#fbdddb;" | A. antecessor|style="background:#fbdddb;" | A. antecessor was originally described as Plegadornis antecessor, but the generic name Plegadornis was preoccupied, so the genus Angelinornis was erected to contain the species. It was later demonstrated that Angelinornis was a junior synonym of Ichthyornis, although the new combination I. antecessor was held to be valid for a while following the sinking of Angelinornis into Ichthyornis. Later the species would later be considered a junior synonym of the Ichthyornis type species, I. dispar.| rowspan="100" | |||
| EotrachodonAlbert Prieto-Márquez, Gregory M. Erickson & Jun A. Ebersole, 2016, "A primitive hadrosaurid from southeastern North America and the origin and early evolution of ‘duck-billed’ dinosaurs", Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology DOI:10.1080/02724634.2015.1054495 | E. orientalis | A hadrosaurid known from a nearly complete skeleton and nearly complete skull. | |||
| Halimornis | H. thompsoni | "Vertebrae and limb elements.""Table 11.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 213. | An enantiornithine | ||
| Ichthyornis|style="background:#E6E6E6;" | I. antecessor|style="background:#E6E6E6;" | The species I. antecessor was made the type species of the genus Angelinornis in 1962. Later, I. antecessor and Angelinornis were shown to be junior synonyms of the Ichthyornis type species, I. dispar | |||
| I. dispar | An ichthyornithine. | ||||
| Lophorhothon | L. atopus | A primitive species of hadrosaurid known from only a few skull fragments. | |||
| Saurornitholestes | S. sp. | A Dromaeosauridae. | |||
| Plegadornis|style="background:#fbdddb;" | P. antecessor|style="background:#fbdddb;" | The name Plegadornis antecessor was applied to a fossil believed to represent a new bird species, but the generic name Plegadornis was preoccupied, so the genus Angelinornis was erected to contain the "new" species. It was later demonstrated that Angelinornis was a junior synonym of Ichthyornis, although the new combination I. antecessor was held to be valid for a while following the sinking of Angelinornis into Ichthtyornis. Later the species would later be considered a junior synonym of the Ichthyornis type species, I. dispar. | |||
| Clidastes | C. liodontus | | rowspan="100" | |||
| C. "moorevillensis" | |||||
| C. propython | |||||
| Ectenosaurus | E. shannoni | A plioplatecarpine | |||
| Eonatator | E. sternbergi (sic) | A halisaurine E. sternbergii was formerly classified as Halisaurus | |||
| E. zangerli | |||||
| Globidens | G. alabamaensis | A mosasaurine | |||
| Mosasaurus | M. missouriensis | A mosasaurine | |||
| Platecarpus | P. tympaniticus | A plioplatecarpine | |||
| Prognathodon | P. rapax | A mosasaurine | |||
| Selmasaurus | S. russelli | A plioplatecarpine | |||
| Tylosaurus | T. proriger | A tylosaurine | |||
| Trinacromerum | Trinacromerum sp. | | rowspan="99" | ||
| Polycotylus | Polycotylus latipinnis Alabama | |||
| Pteranodon | Pteranodon sp. | Pteranodontidae.| rowspan="99" | ||
| Bothremys | B. barberi | A Pelomedusidae.| rowspan="99" | ||
| Corsochelys | C. haliniches | A Dermochelyidae. | ||
| Protostega | P. gigas | A Protostegidae. | ||
| Toxochelys | T. moorevillensis | A Toxichelidae. | ||
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