Where: Lee County, Mississippi (34.4° N, 88.7° W: paleocoordinates 29.9° N, 49.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Cretaceous (145.0 - 66.0 Ma)
• "probably from a deposit of Cretaceous age"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by W. M. Richey; reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: J. W. Gidley. 1913. Some new American pycnodont fishes. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 46(2036):445-450 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 157083: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 05.06.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri | |
Anomoeodus mississippiensis n. sp.
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