Vicksburg (Oligocene of the United States)
Where: Warren County, Mississippi (32.3° N, 90.9° W: paleocoordinates 32.7° N, 84.3° W)
When: Byram Formation (VIcksburg Group), Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: D. Dockery and E. Manning. 1986. Teeth of the gaint shark Carcharodon auriculatus from the Eocene and Oligocene of Mississippi. 7(1):2-14 [M. Uhen/A. Saeed/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 164234: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Ahmed Saeed on 26.11.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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Chondrichthyes | |
Carcharodon auriculatus Blainville 1818 white shark |