Matherville: Priabonian, Mississippi

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea - Basilosauridae
Basilosaurus cetoides (Owen 1839)
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Mississippi County:Wayne
Coordinates: 31.9° North, 88.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.4° North, 80.7° 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 Member:Pachuta
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: marl
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:coastal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:55689
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-11-02 13:23:29 Last modified:2019-12-02 18:05:20
Access level:the public Released:2005-11-02 13:23:29
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

15036. E. Q. Emmer and D. A. Dunn. 1996. Stable isotopic composition of a late Eocene archaeocete whale, Basilosaurus cetoides, from Wayne County, Mississippi. AAPG Bulletin 80(9):1501-1501 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]