Jackson (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Hinds County, Mississippi (32.3° N, 90.2° W: paleocoordinates 32.9° N, 82.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-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 88145: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 02.04.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Astrocoeniidae
Platycoenia jacksonensis n. gen. n. sp.
Platycoenia jacksonensis n. gen. n. sp. Vaughan 1900 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Oculinidae
"Astrohelia burnsi n. sp." = Astrhelia burnsi
"Astrohelia burnsi n. sp." = Astrhelia burnsi Vaughan 1900 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Rhizangiidae
Astrangia expansa n. sp. Vaughan 1900 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
"Aldrichia elegans" = Platytrochus elegans
"Aldrichia elegans" = Platytrochus elegans Vaughan 1900 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Endopachys minutum n. sp. Vaughan 1900 stony coral