Montrose Site: Priabonian, Mississippi
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Mississippi | County: | Jasper |
Coordinates: | 32.2° North, 89.2° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 32.7° North, 81.3° 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
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | claystone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Environment: | offshore |
Geology comments: deep outer-neritic sea, or a very quiet water environment of deposition |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Associated major elements: | all |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | salvage,selective quarrying,surface (in situ),field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 45629 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2004-11-20 07:22:46 | Last modified: | 2020-07-16 10:56:03 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-11-20 07:22:46 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
73068. | D. A. DeVries, W. H. Moore, M. K. Kern, H. McD Morse, and G. E. Murray. 1963. Jasper County Mineral Resources. Mississippi Geological Economic and Topographical Survey Bulletin 95:1-101 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
12023 | T. W. Reel. 1972. The Excavation and Preparation of Two Fossilized Whales. University of Southern Mississippi 1-113 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |