Bucatunna River: Priabonian, Mississippi

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

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Mississippi County:Wayne
Coordinates: 31.8° North, 88.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.3° North, 80.7° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Priabonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 3
*Period:Middle Tertiary - Middle Tertiary *Epoch:Late/Upper Eocene - Late/Upper Eocene
Key time interval:Priabonian
Age range of interval:38.00000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Jackson Formation:Yazoo Member:Pachuta
Stratigraphy comments: The text states that the fossil is from the Jackson Formation, which is now a group. It is probably from the Pachuta Member of the Yazoo Formation based on geologic maps of the area and nearby fossil localities.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: marl
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:coastal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Associated major elements:some
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (float)
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:UNSM
Metadata
Database number:32926
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2003-07-20 11:52:21 Last modified:2019-12-02 17:25:06
Access level:the public Released:2003-07-20 11:52:21
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]