Marquette Cement Company Quarry, Glendon Limestone (Oligocene of the United States)

Also known as MMNS MS.61.001

Where: Rankin County, Mississippi (32.3° N, 90.0° W: paleocoordinates 32.6° N, 83.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Glendon Formation, Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; glauconitic marl

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. L. Frizzell and J. H. Dante. 1965. Otoliths of some early Cenozoic fishes of the Gulf Coast. Journal of Paleontology 39(4):687-718 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 84139: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 18.09.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Anguilliformes - Muraenidae
"Conger brevior" = Congeris brevior2
"Conger brevior" = Congeris brevior2 Koken 1888 eel
 Acanthomorphata - Sciaenidae
Corvina gemma Koken 1888
Corvina pseudoradians Frizzell and Dante 1965
Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Calappidae
Calappilia granulosa n. sp.1 Feldmann et al. 2019 box crab