Jackson Waterworks: Priabonian, Mississippi

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea - Basilosauridae
Zygorhiza kochii (Carus 1847)
Sullivan 1948 1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Mississippi County:Hinds
Coordinates: 32.3° North, 90.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.9° North, 82.3° 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
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: marl
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:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:45639
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-11-20 11:38:36 Last modified:2019-12-02 17:35:45
Access level:the public Released:2004-11-20 11:38:36
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

8335. R. Kellogg. 1936. A Review of the Archaeoceti. Carnegie Institution of Washington 482:1-366 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

12026 J. M. Sullivan. 1948. Some new fossils from the Mississippi Eocene. Journal of the Mississippi Academy of Science 153-162 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]