Where: Clay County, Mississippi (33.6° N, 88.7° W: paleocoordinates 36.3° N, 59.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Exogyra ponderosa other zone, Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast
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 123403: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 20.01.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
"Trochocyathus mississippiensis n. sp." = Trochocyathus speciosus
"Trochocyathus mississippiensis n. sp." = Trochocyathus speciosus Gabb and Horn 1860 stony coral |