Pachuta Site: Priabonian, Mississippi

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea - Basilosauridae
Basilosaurus cetoides (Owen 1839)
1 specimen
Acipenseriformes
Cylindracanthus rectus (Agassiz 1843)
Leriche 1942
Chondrichthyes - Odontaspidida - Isuridae
Oxyrhina praecursor Leriche 1942
Leriche 1942
Chondrichthyes - Rhinopristiformes - Pristidae
Pristis sp. Linck 1790
Leriche 1942
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Mississippi County:Jasper
Coordinates: 32.1° North, 89.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.6° North, 81.1° 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:37.71000 - 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
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate,replaced with phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Associated major elements:all
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:45630
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-11-20 07:35:42 Last modified:2012-09-03 15:09:24
Access level:the public Released:2004-11-20 07:35:42
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
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]

Secondary references:

28099 M. Leriche. 1942. Contribution a l'etude des faunes ichthyologiques marines des terrains tertiaires de la plaine cotiere Atlantique et du centre des Etats-Unis. Memoires de la Societe Geologique de France (Nouvelle Serie) 45:1-111 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]