Clearview Landfill: 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: | Scott |
Coordinates: | 32.2° North, 89.4° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 32.8° North, 81.5° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
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 |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | claystone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Environment: | foreshore |
Geology comments: The Yazoo Clay Formation exhibits a shallow subtropical inner shelf environment with abundant life evolving into a deeper more clay-dominated middle shelf environment. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | excellent |
Articulated whole bodies: | all |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (in situ),field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 45627 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2004-11-19 13:02:12 | Last modified: | 2019-12-02 17:55:37 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-11-19 13:02:12 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
12017. | D. T. Dockery. 2003. A largely complete Basilosaurus find in the Upper Yazoo Clay in Scott County, Mississippi. Journal of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences 48(1):42-43 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
15429 | J. E. Starnes and S. Peyton. 2003. Preliminary osteology of a Basilosaurus cetoides from the Upper Yazoo Clay in Scott County, Mississippi. Mississippi Academy of Sciences 48(1):43-43 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |