MSU 2188 - Isney [Cocoa Sand] (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Choctaw County, Alabama (31.8° N, 88.5° W: paleocoordinates 32.3° N, 80.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cocoa Sand Formation, Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Cocoa Sand, for which stratigraphic relationships are not discussed. AGE: Presumably late Eocene (Jacksonian), although not discussed. Other collections are assigned to the Priabonian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From basal Cocoa Sand.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified sandstone

• LITHOLOGY: Sandstone. LITHIFICATION: Presumed lithified.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Russell in 1970-1971

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

• COLLECTORS: E. Russell, 1970-71. REPOSITORY: Mississippi State University, Seiler Museum (MSU).

Primary reference: V. A. Zullo and L. E. Kite. 1985. Barnacles of the Jacksonian (Upper Eocene) Griffins Landing Member, Dry Branch Formation in South Carolina and Georgia. South Carolina Geology 28(1):1-21 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 160401: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 20.08.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Limited to Cirripedia. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature, and species resolution identifications.
Thecostraca
 Pollicipomorpha - Zeugmatolepadidae
Aporolepas howei Cheetham 1963 barnacle