South valley wall of Tibbee Creek (Cretaceous of the United States)

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
 Calanticomorpha - Cretiscalpellidae
Cretiscalpellum vallum n. sp. Collins 1973 barnacle
 Scalpellomorpha - Scalpellidae