Lock A site, Tennessee-Tombigee Waterway (Cretaceous to of the United States)

Where: Monroe County, Mississippi (34.0° N, 88.5° W: paleocoordinates 34.6° N, 57.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: McShan/Eutaw Formation (Selma Group), Early/Lower Santonian to Early/Lower Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)

• either basal Eutaw or upper McShan Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: K. Carpenter. 1982. The oldest Late Cretaceous dinosaurs in North America?. Mississippi Geology 3(2):11-17 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 64743: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 13.09.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Ankylosauria indet.2 Osborn 1923 ankylosaur
MMNS VP104
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869 hadrosaurid
MMNS VP111, VP108
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet. theropod
MMNS VP113
 Theropoda - Ornithomimidae
Ornithomimidae indet.1 Marsh 1890 ornithomimid
MMNS VP103