Also known as M11
Where: Clay County, Mississippi (33.5° N, 88.7° W: paleocoordinates 36.4° N, 60.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Taylor Group, Middle Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• Basal Annona Chalk or the Upper Coffee Formation, both of which belong to the Taylor Group belonging the 'Selma Chalk' Group.
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the BMNH
• Repository: Mississippi State University
Primary reference: J. S. H. Collins. 1973. Cirripedes from the Upper Cretaceous of Alabama and Mississippi, Eastern Gulf Region, USA. Part 1. Palaeontology. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Geology 23(6):349-380 [C. Schweitzer/L. Baltzly]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 172903: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Lerin Baltzly on 28.08.2015, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Thecostraca | |
Cretiscalpellum vallum n. sp.
Cretiscalpellum vallum n. sp. Collins 1973 barnacle | |
Virgiscalpellum sp. barnacle |