Horace Brown farm: Priabonian, Alabama

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea - Basilosauridae
Basilosaurus cetoides (Owen 1839)
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Alabama County:Choctaw
Coordinates: 31.7° North, 88.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.2° North, 80.5° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Priabonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 3
Key time interval:Priabonian
Age range of interval:38.00000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Jackson Formation:Yazoo Member:Pachuta
Stratigraphy comments: originally described as Jackson Formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: marl
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:coastal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:204941
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2019-09-27 11:32:30 Last modified:2019-12-02 18:23:06
Access level:the public Released:2019-09-27 11:32:30
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

8335. R. Kellogg. 1936. A Review of the Archaeoceti. Carnegie Institution of Washington 482:1-366 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]