De Soto Station (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Clarke County, Mississippi (32.0° N, 88.8° W: paleocoordinates 33.0° N, 78.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lisbon Formation (Claiborne Group), Middle Eocene (47.8 - 37.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. W. Vaughan. 1900. The Eocene and lower Oligocene coral faunas of the United States with descriptions of a few doubtfully Cretaceous species. United States Geological Survey, Monograph 39:1-263 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 87838: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.03.2009

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Trochocyathus depressus n. sp. Vaughan 1900 stony coral