Ready-Mix Quarry (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Hinds County, Mississippi (32.4° N, 90.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.0° N, 82.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Jackson Group, Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• group-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. W. Reel. 1972. The Excavation and Preparation of Two Fossilized Whales. University of Southern Mississippi 1-113 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 132844: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 28.08.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cetacea - Basilosauridae
Basilosaurus cetoides Owen 1839 whale