State Line cut, near Wenasoga, Miss. (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Tennessee (35.0° N, 88.6° W: paleocoordinates 38.6° N, 65.3° W)

When: lower Member (Ripley Formation), Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• "between Selma and Ripley formations" (probably lower Ripley) - as quoted in reference

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the USNM

• Collections: Vanderbilt University (type), U.S. National Museum, [P.wenasogensis];

Primary reference: M. J. Rathbun. 1935. Fossil Crustacea of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain. Geological Society of America Special Paper (2)1-160 [C. Schweitzer/S. Yost]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 140675: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 14.03.2013

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Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Nephropidae
Hoploparia mcnairyensis Rathbun 1926 clawed lobster
 Decapoda - Penaeidae
Penaeus wenasogensis Rathbun 1926 decapod