MGS 79 (Oligocene of the United States)

Where: Escambia County, Alabama (31.1° N, 87.1° W: paleocoordinates 31.3° N, 80.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Glendon Formation (Vicksburg Group), Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: D. T. Dockery. 1980. Invertebrate Macropaleontolgy of the Clarke County Mississippi Area. Bulletin - Mississippi Geological, Economic and Topographic Survey 122 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/L. Eccles]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 101113: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 17.12.2010

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Spatangoida - Schizasteridae
"Schizaster (Paraster) americanus" = Schizaster americana
"Schizaster (Paraster) americanus" = Schizaster americana Clark and Twitchell 1915 heart urchin