Bucatunna River: Priabonian, Mississippi
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Basilosauridae
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Basilosaurus cetoides
(Owen 1839)
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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
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] |