Where: Lowndes County, Mississippi (33.5° N, 88.4° W: paleocoordinates 35.9° N, 58.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Tombigbee Sand Member (Eutaw Formation), Late/Upper Coniacian to Late/Upper Coniacian (89.3 - 70.6 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; unlithified, silty, sandy claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: trace
Primary reference: G. Phillips and E. Loftis. 1999. A significant late Santonian (Upper Cretaceous) vertebrate fossil site in Lowndes Co., Mississippi. In J. A. Boyle (ed.), Journal of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences 44(1):43 [M. Uhen/L. Harfoush/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 164393: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Lina Harfoush on 02.12.2014, edited by Matthew Carrano
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Elasmobranchii | |
Elasmobranchii indet. elasmobranch | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Ptychodus mortoni Mantell 1836 elasmobranch | |
Hybodus sp. Agassiz 1834 elasmobranch | |
Pseudohypolophus mcnultyi Thurmond 1971 guitarfish | |
Ptychotrygon sp. Jaekel 1894 ray | |
Sclerorhynchidae indet. Capetta 1974 ray
Ischyrhiza mira Leidy 1856 ray | |
Scapanorhynchus texanus Roemer 1852 goblin shark | |
Squalicorax sp. Whitley 1939 crow shark
Squalicorax kaupi Agassiz 1843 crow shark | |
"Cretolamna appendiculata" = Cretalamna appendiculata
"Cretolamna appendiculata" = Cretalamna appendiculata Agassiz 1835 mackerel shark | |
Osteichthyes | |
Actinopterygii indet. ray-finned fish | |
Actinopteri | |
Lepisosteidae indet. Cuvier 1825 gar
Atractosteus sp. Rafinesque 1820 gar
Lepisosteus sp. Agassiz 1843 gar | |
Enchodus petrosus Cope 1874 | |
Xiphactinus audax Leidy 1870 | |
Anomoeodus phaseolus Hay 1899 | |
Reptilia | |
Theropoda "indet. 1" Marsh 1881 theropod
Theropoda "indet. 2" Marsh 1881 theropod | |
Ornithopoda indet. ornithopod | |
Plesiosauria indet. de Blainville 1835 plesiosaur |