Where: Yazoo County, Mississippi (32.7° N, 90.5° W: paleocoordinates 33.5° N, 81.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Moodys Branch Formation (Jackson Group), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; glauconitic, argillaceous, calcareous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: D. T. Dockery. 1974. An Archaeoceti from the Moodys Branch Formation (Upper Eocene) of Mississippi. Compass of Sigma Gamma Epsilon 51(3):61-64 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 45625: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 19.11.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Dorudon sp. Gibbes 1845 whale |