Marquette Cement Company quarry, Mint Spring Fm.: Rupelian, Mississippi
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca
- Decapoda
- Calappidae
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Calappidae indet.
De Haan 1833
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Feldmann et al. 2014 | ||||||
Calappilia perreaulti n. sp.
Feldmann et al. 2019
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Feldmann et al. 2014 | ||||||
Actinopteri
- Anguilliformes
- Congridae
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Conger sanctus
Frizzell and Lamber 1962
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Frizzell and Lamber 1962 | ||||||
recombined as Rhynchoconger sanctus | |||||||
Actinopteri
- Sciaenidae
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Corvina gemma
(Koken 1888)
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Mississippi | County: | Rankin |
Coordinates: | 32.3° North, 90.0° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 32.6° North, 83.5° 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 - 28.10000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Mint Spring Marl |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | glauconitic marl |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
Also known as: | MMNS MS.61.003 | ||
Database number: | 84141 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2008-09-18 18:15:31 | Last modified: | 2019-07-11 19:23:44 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2008-09-18 18:15:31 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
28160. | D. L. Frizzell and J. H. Dante. 1965. Otoliths of some early Cenozoic fishes of the Gulf Coast. Journal of Paleontology 39(4):687-718 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
53869 | decapod | R. M. Feldmann, C. E. Schweitzer, and R. W. Portell. 2014. Crabs (Decapoda, Brachyura) from the lower Paleocene of Alabama, USA. Scripta Geologica 147:135-151 [C. Schweitzer/L. Baltzly] |
28170 | D. L. Frizzell and C. K. Lamber. 1962. Distinctive "congrid type" fish otoliths from the lower Tertiary of the Gulf Coast (Pisces: Anguilliformes). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 32(5):87-101 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |