Also known as OC.5
Where: Oktibbeha County, Mississippi (33.5° N, 88.8° W: paleocoordinates 37.1° N, 66.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• Basal Prairie Bluff and upper Ripley
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by F.F. Mellen
• 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 210598: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 06.06.2020
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Thecostraca | |
Arcoscalpellum withersi Collins 1973 barnacle |