Plymouth Bluff, Tombigbee Sands (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Lowndes County, Mississippi (33.5° N, 88.5° W: paleocoordinates 34.2° N, 57.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tombigbee Sand Member (Eutaw Formation), Santonian (86.3 - 83.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: D. A. Russell. 1964. The Skull of American Mosasaurs. 1-386 [M. Carrano/H. Street/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 107505: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Hallie Street on 09.04.2011, edited by Mark Uhen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Crinoidea
 Comatulida - Marsupitidae
"Marsupites americanus" = Marsupites testudinarius
"Marsupites americanus" = Marsupites testudinarius Schlotheim 1820 Feather star
Reptilia
 Squamata - Mosasauridae
? Mosasaurus sp. Parkinson 1822 mosasaur
USNM 3026, dentary