Horace Brown farm (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Choctaw County, Alabama (31.7° N, 88.4° W: paleocoordinates 32.2° N, 80.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Pachuta Member (Yazoo Formation), Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• originally described as Jackson Formation

Environment/lithology: coastal; marl

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. Kellogg. 1936. A Review of the Archaeoceti. Carnegie Institution of Washington 482:1-366 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 204941: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 27.09.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cetacea - Basilosauridae
Basilosaurus cetoides Owen 1839 whale