Glass Bayou [Mint Spring Fm]: Rupelian, Mississippi

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Turbinoliidae
Turbinolia vicksburgensis n. sp. Monsour 1944
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Cytherideidae
Cytheridea (Clithrocytheridea) grigsbyi (Howe and Chambers 1935)
Stephenson 1936
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Mississippi County:Warren
Coordinates: 32.3° North, 90.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.7° North, 84.3° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
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 Formation:Mint Springs
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: 3-10 ft. below 25 ft. limestone bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified sandy claystone
Lithology description: bluish-gray sandy clay
Environment:coastal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:87171
Authorizer:W. Kiessling, S. Cole Enterer:U. Merkel, S. Cole
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-03-09 01:25:01 Last modified:2014-08-21 12:11:22
Access level:authorizer only Released:2010-03-09 01:25:01
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
29333. E. Monsour. 1944. Fossil corals of the genus Turbinolia from the Golf Coast. Journal of Paleontology 18(2):109-118 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]

Secondary references:

65399 M. B. Stephenson. 1936. Shell structure of the ostracode genus Cytheridea. Journal of Paleontology 10(8):695-703 [S. Cole/S. Cole]