Columbus: Late/Upper Santonian - Early/Lower Campanian, Mississippi
collected by W. Spillman

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Chimaeriformes - Edaphodontidae
Eumylodus laqueatus n. gen., n. sp. Leidy 1873
Leidy 1873 1 specimen
Reptilia - Testudines - Desmatochelyidae
Platecarpus tuberosus n. sp. Cope 1872
Cope 1872 1 specimen
recombined as Neptunochelys tuberosa
humerus
Reptilia - Mosasauridae
Platecarpus tympaniticus n. gen., n. sp. Cope 1869
Konishi et al. 2010 9 specimens
Holotype - ANSP 8484, 8487-88, 8491, 8558-59, 8562, all from one individual, includes a partial left surangular, right quadrate, partial right pterygoid, anterior dorsal vertebra, two cervical vertebrae, and partial basioccipital-basisphenoid complex. ANSP 8491, the partial right pterygoid, is currently missing.
Reptilia - Hadrosauridae
? Hadrosaurus sp. Leidy 1858
1 specimen
phalanx
Actinopteri - Pycnodontiformes - Pycnodontidae
Hadrodus priscus n. gen., n. sp. Leidy 1857
Leidy 1873 1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Mississippi County:Lowndes
Coordinates: 33.5° North, 88.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.2° North, 59.6° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Key time interval:Late/Upper Santonian - Early/Lower Campanian
Age range of interval:85.80000 - 70.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Eutaw Member:Tombigbee Sand
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:green sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:random
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Fragmentation:frequent
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:mechanical,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:W. Spillman
Collection method comments: collected by Dr. William Spillman
Metadata
Also known as:Platecarpus type
Database number:98972
Authorizer:M. Carrano, E. Vlachos Enterer:H. Street, M. Carrano, E. Vlachos
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2010-10-25 12:27:13 Last modified:2016-09-16 13:18:38
Access level:the public Released:2010-10-25 12:27:13
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

53137. J. Leidy. 1866. [The specimen of a large phalanx of an extinct reptile]. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 1866:9 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

34597 E. D. Cope. 1869. On the reptilian orders Pythonomorpha and Streptosauria. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 12:250-266 [M. Carrano/H. Street/M. Carrano]
64656 E. D. Cope. 1872. A description of the genus Protostega, a form of extinct Testudinata. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 12(86):422-433 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]
33389 T. Konishi and M. W. Caldwell. 2007. New specimens of Platecarpus planifrons (Cope, 1874) (Squamata: Mosasauridae) and a revised taxonomy of the genus. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(1):59-72 [M. Carrano/H. Street/P. Mannion]
34078 T. Konishi, M. W. Caldwell, and G. L. Bell, Jr. 2010. Redescription of the holotype of Platecarpus tympaniticus Cope, 1869 (Mosasauridae: Plioplatecarpinae), and its implications for the alpha taxonomy of the genus. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(5):1410-1421 [M. Carrano/H. Street]
11982 J. Leidy. 1873. Part I. Contributions to the extinct vertebrate fauna of the western territories. In F. V. Hayden (ed.), Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories 1:1-358 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Carrano]
27182 J. T. Thurmond and D. E. Jones. 1981. Fossil Vertebrates of Alabama 1-244 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]