Where: Warren County, Mississippi (32.4° N, 90.9° W: paleocoordinates 32.7° N, 84.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Byram Formation (Vicksburg Group), Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)
• group-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 101194: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 18.12.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
"Archohelia vicksburgensis" = Petrophyllia
"Archohelia vicksburgensis" = Petrophyllia stony coral | |
Bivalvia | |
Lopha (Lopha) vicksburgensis Conrad 1848 oyster | |
Glycymeris arctata Conrad 1848 clam | |
Foraminifera | |