Northeast of Scooba (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Kemper County, Mississippi (32.8° N, 88.5° W: paleocoordinates 35.7° N, 60.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Selma Group, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• "upper part of the Selma chalk"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; chalk

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 107506: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Hallie Street on 09.04.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Squamata - Mosasauridae
Mosasaurus sp. Parkinson 1822 mosasaur
USNM 12287, tooth