Where: Oktibbeha County, Mississippi (33.4° N, 88.9° W: paleocoordinates 37.0° N, 66.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Ripley Formation, Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Dunn-Seiler Museum (MSU) collection
Primary reference: C. A. Brochu. 2004. A New Late Cretaceous gavialoid crocodylian from Eastern North America and the phylogenetic relationships of thoracosaurs. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 24(3):610-633 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 108936: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 08.05.2011, edited by Philip Mannion
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Eothoracosaurus mississippiensis n. gen. n. sp.
Eothoracosaurus mississippiensis n. gen. n. sp. Brochu 2004 crocodilian MSU 3293 (skull, jaws, 4 cervicals, 11 dorsals, 2 sacrals, 6 caudals, left scapaula, coracoids, right ilium, right ischium, femora and 45 scutes)
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