Negro Creek: Priabonian, Mississippi
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Basilosauridae
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Basilosaurus cetoides
(Owen 1839)
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Mississippi | County: | Clarke |
| Coordinates: | 31.9° North, 88.5° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 32.4° North, 80.6° 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
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 |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 45634 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2004-11-20 08:11:56 | Last modified: | 2019-12-02 17:33:57 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-11-20 08:11:56 |
| 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] |