Guntown: Cretaceous, Mississippi
collected by W. M. Richey
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Actinopteri
- Pycnodontiformes
- Pycnodontidae
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Anomoeodus mississippiensis n. sp.
Gidley 1913
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1 individual | |||||||||
| USNM 75 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Mississippi | County: | Lee |
| Coordinates: | 34.4° North, 88.7° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 29.9° North, 49.1° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 1-8 |
| Key time interval: | Cretaceous |
| Age range of interval: | 145.00000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "probably from a deposit of Cretaceous age" | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | USNM |
| Collectors: | W. M. Richey |
Metadata
| Database number: | 157083 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2014-06-05 16:16:45 | Last modified: | 2014-06-06 15:31:04 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2014-06-05 16:16:45 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 51496. | J. W. Gidley. 1913. Some new American pycnodont fishes. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 46(2036):445-450 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |