Lowndes County [PROXY] (Cretaceous to of the United States)

Where: Lowndes County, Mississippi (33.5° N, 88.4° W: paleocoordinates 35.9° N, 58.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tombigbee Sand Member (Eutaw Formation), Late/Upper Coniacian to Late/Upper Coniacian (89.3 - 70.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; unlithified, silty, sandy claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Primary reference: G. Phillips and E. Loftis. 1999. A significant late Santonian (Upper Cretaceous) vertebrate fossil site in Lowndes Co., Mississippi. In J. A. Boyle (ed.), Journal of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences 44(1):43 [M. Uhen/L. Harfoush/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 164393: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Lina Harfoush on 02.12.2014, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Plesiosauria -
Plesiosauria indet. de Blainville 1835 plesiosaur
 Ornithischia -
 Theropoda -
Theropoda "indet. 1" Marsh 1881 theropod
Theropoda "indet. 2" Marsh 1881 theropod
Osteichthyes
 Actinopterygii -
Actinopterygii indet. ray-finned fish
Actinopteri
 Ichthyodectiformes - Ichthyodectidae
Xiphactinus audax Leidy 1870
 Aulopiformes - Enchodontidae
 Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae
Lepisosteidae indet. Cuvier 1825 gar
Lepisosteus sp. Agassiz 1843 gar
Atractosteus sp. Rafinesque 1820 gar
 Pycnodontiformes - Pycnodontidae
Elasmobranchii
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Chondrichthyes
 Hybodontiformes - Ptychodontidae
Ptychodus mortoni Mantell 1836 elasmobranch
 Hybodontiformes - Hybodontidae
Hybodus sp. Agassiz 1834 elasmobranch
 Lamniformes - Otodontidae
"Cretolamna appendiculata" = Cretalamna appendiculata
"Cretolamna appendiculata" = Cretalamna appendiculata Agassiz 1835 mackerel shark
 Lamniformes - Anacoracidae
Squalicorax sp. Whitley 1939 crow shark
Squalicorax kaupi Agassiz 1843 crow shark
 Lamniformes - Mitsukurinidae
Scapanorhynchus texanus Roemer 1852 goblin shark
 Rajiformes - Sclerorhynchidae
Sclerorhynchidae indet. Capetta 1974 ray
Ischyrhiza mira Leidy 1856 ray
 Rajiformes - Ptychotrygonidae
Ptychotrygon sp. Jaekel 1894 ray
 Rajiformes -
Pseudohypolophus mcnultyi Thurmond 1971 guitarfish