Where: Wanye County, Mississippi (31.7° N, 88.7° W: paleocoordinates 32.0° N, 82.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Chickasawhay Formation, Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Monroe, MacNeil
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: W.H. Monroe, F.S. MacNeil. REPOSITORY: USNM.
Primary reference: C. W. Cooke. 1959. Cenozoic echinoids of eastern United States. United States Geological Survey Professional Papers 321:1-106 [L. Villier/L. Villier/M. Hopkins]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 155947: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 04.05.2014, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Clypeaster rogersi Morton 1834 sand dollar | |
Bivalvia | |
Pteria cf. argentea Conrad 1848 pearl oyster | |
Anadara macneili Mansfield 1938 ark | |