Highway 63 Bridge, upstream: Rupelian, Mississippi
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
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Syphraena sp.
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Mammalia
- Sirenia
- Sirenia
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Sirenia indet.
Illiger 1811
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1 specimen | ||||||
Mammalia
- Cetacea
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Odontoceti indet.
Flower 1867
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Uhen 2013 | 1 specimen | |||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Trionychidae
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Trionychidae indet.
Gray 1825
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Reptilia
- Testudines
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Chelonia indet.
(Latreille 1800)
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synonym of Testudines | |||||||
Actinopteri
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Siluroidea indet.
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Odontaspididae
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Odontaspis sp.
Agassiz 1838
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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] |