Plymouth Bluff, Tombigbee Sands: Santonian, Mississippi
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Crinoidea
- Comatulida
- Marsupitidae
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Marsupites americanus
Springer 1911
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Clark and Twitchell 1915 | |||||||||
| synonym of Marsupites testudinarius | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Mosasauridae
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? Mosasaurus sp.
Parkinson 1822
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1 element | |||||||||
| USNM 3026, dentary | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Mississippi | County: | Lowndes |
| Coordinates: | 33.5° North, 88.5° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 34.2° North, 57.2° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Santonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 6 |
| Key time interval: | Santonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 86.30000 - 83.60000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Eutaw | Member: | Tombigbee Sand |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | random |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
| Abundance in sediment: | few |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
| Collection size: | 1 specimens |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Museum repositories: | USNM |
Metadata
| Database number: | 107505 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano, M. Uhen | Enterer: | H. Street, M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2011-04-09 06:30:20 | Last modified: | 2011-08-05 12:39:21 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-04-09 06:30:20 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 35745. | ETE | D. A. Russell. 1964. The Skull of American Mosasaurs. 1-386 [M. Carrano/H. Street/P. Wagner] |
Secondary references:
| 16640 | W. B. Clark and M. W. Twitchell. 1915. The Mesozoic and Cenozoic Echinodermata of the United States. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 54:1-341 [L. Villier/J. Millet/M. Uhen] |