Also known as Nahalak
Where: Kemper County, Mississippi (32.9° N, 88.5° W: paleocoordinates 36.5° N, 65.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Selma Group, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: chalk
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Wetherby; reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: J. W. Wells. 1933. Corals of the Cretaceous of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains and Western Interior of the United States. Bulletins of American Paleontology 18(67):85-288 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 123370: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 20.01.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
"Caryophyllia mississippiensis" = Caryophyllia konincki
"Caryophyllia mississippiensis" = Caryophyllia konincki Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
Echinoidea | |
"Cidaris nahalakensis n. sp." = Cidaris wahalakensis
"Cidaris nahalakensis n. sp." = Cidaris wahalakensis de Loriol 1887 pencil urchin | |
"Cyphosoma mortoni n. sp." = Rachiosoma mortoni
"Cyphosoma mortoni n. sp." = Rachiosoma mortoni de Loriol 1887 sea urchin |