Illinois Central Railroad cut, SE of Plain: Rupelian, Mississippi

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Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Portunus vicksburgensis Stenzel 1935
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Mississippi County:Rankin
Coordinates: 32.2° North, 90.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.6° North, 83.6° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Oligocene
Stage: Rupelian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 4
Key time interval: Rupelian
Age range of interval: 33.9 - 27.82 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Vicksburg
Stratigraphy comments: lower Oligocene
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:fine lithified muddy,calcareous marl
Secondary lithology: lithified muddy,sandy "mixed carbonate-siliciclastic"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (float),surface (in situ)
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:134724
Authorizer:C. Schweitzer, M. Uhen Enterer:L. Baltzly, M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:decapod
Created:2012-10-13 08:00:06 Last modified:2019-07-09 15:55:50
Access level:authorizer only Released:2017-10-13 08:00:06
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

43007.decapod H. B. Stenzel. 1935. Middle Eocene and Oligocene Decapod Crustaceans from Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. The American Midland Naturalist 16(3):379-400 [C. Schweitzer/L. Baltzly/M. Uhen]