Highway 63 Bridge, upstream: Rupelian, Mississippi

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Syphraena sp.
Mammalia - Sirenia - Sirenia
Sirenia indet. Illiger 1811
1 specimen
Mammalia - Cetacea
Odontoceti indet. Flower 1867
Uhen 2013 1 specimen
Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionychidae indet. Gray 1825
Reptilia - Testudines
Chelonia indet. (Latreille 1800)
synonym of Testudines
Actinopteri
Siluroidea indet.
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Odontaspididae
Odontaspis sp. Agassiz 1838
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Mississippi County:Wanye
Coordinates: 31.6° North, 88.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:31.9° North, 82.2° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Oligocene
Stage:Rupelian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 4
Key time interval:Rupelian
Age range of interval:33.90000 - 27.82000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Chickasawhay
Lithology and environment
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Station 13388 (Mansfield, 1940) Tulane Univeristy Locality 242
Database number:49871
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-04-29 07:06:10 Last modified:2007-02-14 16:05:48
Access level:the public Released:2005-04-29 07:06:10
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
13398. A. A. Arata and G. C. Jackson. 1965. Cenozoic vertebrates from the Gulf Coastal Plain - I. Tulane Studies in Geology 3(3):175-177 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

42488 M. D. Uhen. 2013. A review of North American Basilosauridae. Alabama Museum of Natural History Bulletin 31(2):1-45 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]