Where: Lowndes County, Mississippi (33.5° N, 88.4° W: paleocoordinates 35.9° N, 58.2° W)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Eutaw Formation, Late/Upper Coniacian to Late/Upper Coniacian (89.3 - 70.6 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; unlithified, silty, sandy claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: trace
Primary reference: G. Phillips and E. Loftis. 1999. A significant late Santonian (Upper Cretaceous) vertebrate fossil site in Lowndes Co., Mississippi. In J. A. Boyle (ed.), Journal of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences 44(1):42-42 [M. Uhen/L. Harfoush]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 164393: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Lina Harfoush on 02.12.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Hybodus sp. Agassiz 1837 elasmobranch | |
Ptychodus mortoni Agassiz 1843 elasmobranch | |
Sclerorhynchidae indet. Capetta 1974 elasmobranch
Ischyrhiza mira Leidy 1856 elasmobranch | |
Ptychotrygon sp. Jaekel 1894 elasmobranch | |
"Pseudohypolophus mcnultyi" = Hypolophus mcnultyi
"Pseudohypolophus mcnultyi" = Hypolophus mcnultyi Thurmond 1971 whiptail stingray | |
Squalicorax sp. Whitley 1939 crow shark
Squalicorax kaupi Agassiz 1843 crow shark | |
Cretolamna appendiculata Agassiz 1843 mackerel shark | |
Scapanorhynchus texanus Roemer 1852 goblin shark | |
Osteichthyes | |
Actinopterygii indet. ray-finned fish | |
Actinopteri | |
Enchodus petrosus Cope 1874 | |
Xiphactinus audax Leidy 1870 | |
Anomoeodus phaseolus Hay 1899 | |
Lepisosteus sp. Agassiz 1843 gar
Atractosteus sp. Rafinesque 1820 gar | |
Reptilia | |
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881 theropod | |
Ornithopoda indet. bird foot dinosaur | |
Plesiosauria indet. plesiosaur |