Montrose Site: Priabonian, Mississippi

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea - Basilosauridae
Basilosaurus cetoides (Owen 1839)
Reel 1972 1 specimen
see common names

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
Geological group:Jackson Formation:Yazoo Member:Pachuta
Stratigraphic resolution:member
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]