Marquette Cement Company quarry, Mint Spring Fm.: Rupelian, Mississippi

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Calappidae
Calappidae indet. De Haan 1833
Feldmann et al. 2014
Calappilia perreaulti n. sp. Feldmann et al. 2019
Feldmann et al. 2014
Actinopteri - Anguilliformes - Congridae
Conger sanctus Frizzell and Lamber 1962
Frizzell and Lamber 1962
recombined as Rhynchoconger sanctus
Actinopteri - Sciaenidae
Corvina gemma (Koken 1888)
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:

53869decapod 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]