Clearview Landfill: 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: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
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Jackson Formation:Yazoo
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
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]