North of Evans Hall (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as M8

Where: Oktibbeha County, Mississippi (33.5° N, 88.8° W: paleocoordinates 37.0° N, 66.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Prairie Bluff Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• Geographic location consistent with the Prairie Bluff Chalk.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; siliciclastic sediments

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 210607: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 07.06.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Thecostraca
 Calanticomorpha - Cretiscalpellidae
Cretiscalpellum harnedi Collins 1973 barnacle
 Scalpellomorpha - Scalpellidae
Arcoscalpellum withersi Collins 1973 barnacle
Arcoscalpellum campus Collins 1973 barnacle
Virgiscalpellum gabbi Pilsbry 1933 barnacle
ssp. gabbi, apertus