Meridian (Paleocene to of the United States)
Where: Lauderdale County, Mississippi (32.4° N, 88.7° W: paleocoordinates 34.7° N, 73.2° W)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Bells Landing Member (Tuscahoma Formation), Late/Upper Paleocene to Late/Upper Paleocene (58.7 - 48.6 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; poorly lithified, sandy sandstone
• the occurrence of fossil snakes in this sequence suggests that they had an open marine habitat.
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. A. Holman, D. T. Dockery, and G. R. Case. 1991. Paleogene snakes of Mississippi. Mississippi Geology 11(1):1-12 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 161862: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Ahmed Saeed on 14.09.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Palaeophis littoralis Cope 1847 snake
Palaeophis casei Holman 1982 snake
Palaeophis virginianus Lynn 1934 snake | |