Northeast of Scooba: Late/Upper Campanian, Mississippi

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Mosasauridae
Mosasaurus sp. Parkinson 1822
1 specimen
USNM 12287, tooth
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Mississippi County:Kemper
Coordinates: 32.8° North, 88.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.7° North, 60.5° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:hand sample
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Campanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 7
Key time interval:Late/Upper Campanian
Age range of interval:83.50000 - 70.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Selma
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: "upper part of the Selma chalk"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: chalk
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:rare
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:107506
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:H. Street
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2011-04-09 06:36:54 Last modified:2016-09-16 12:47:14
Access level:the public Released:2011-04-09 06:36:54
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]