Where: Oktibbeha County, Mississippi (33.5° N, 88.8° W: paleocoordinates 37.1° N, 66.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Selma Group, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: chalk
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. W. Wells. 1933. Corals of the Cretaceous of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains and Western Interior of the United States. Bulletins of American Paleontology 18(67):85-288 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 123367: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.01.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Anthozoa | |
"Dasmosmilia reesidei" = Dasmosmilia kochii, "Caryophyllia mississippiensis n. sp." = Caryophyllia konincki
"Dasmosmilia reesidei" = Dasmosmilia kochii Pratz 1910 stony coral
"Caryophyllia mississippiensis n. sp." = Caryophyllia konincki Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |