Fulton (Eocene of the United States)

Also known as First Chickasaw Bluff

Where: Lauderdale County, Tennessee (35.6° N, 89.9° W: paleocoordinates 36.2° N, 81.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Jackson Group, Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• the Jackson Group is undifferentiated in Tennessee

• group-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, glauconitic claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: G. K. Moore and D. L. Brown. 1969. Stratigraphy of the Fort Pillow Test Well, Lauderdale County, Tennessee. Tennessee Division of Geology Report of Investigations 26:1 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 32902: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 17.07.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Corgan (1976) states that the whale remains are in the U.S. National Museum, but they are not (M. D. Uhen, 2011).
Gnathostomata
  -
Chondrichthyes indet. Huxley 1880 cartilaginous fish
listed as shark teeth
Mammalia
 Cetacea - Basilosauridae
Basilosaurus cf. cetoides Owen 1839 whale
listed as "Basilosaurus cf. B. cetacea" by Corgan (1976)