Where: Lee County, Mississippi (34.4° N, 88.6° W: paleocoordinates 37.3° N, 60.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Tupelo Tongue Member (Coffee Sand Formation), Middle Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, glauconitic, sandy claystone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: original aragonite
Collected by D.T. Dockery
Collection methods: sieve,
Primary reference: D. Nolf and D. T. Dockery III. 1990. Fish Otoliths from the Coffee Sand (Campanian) of Northeastern Mississippi. Mississippi Geology 10(3):1-14 [M. Uhen/A. Lunsford]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 164558: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Ashley Lunsford on 05.12.2014, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
Sclerorhynchus sp. Woodward 1889 ray
Ischyrhiza mira Leidy 1856 ray | |
Ptychotrygon vermiculata Cappetta 1975 ray | |
? Carcharias "sp. 1" Rafinesque 1810 sand shark
Carcharias "sp. 2" Rafinesque 1810 sand shark | |
"Cretolamna appendiculata" = Cretalamna appendiculata
"Cretolamna appendiculata" = Cretalamna appendiculata Agassiz 1835 mackerel shark | |
Scapanorhynchus texanus Roemer 1852 goblin shark | |
Squalicorax kaupi Agassiz 1843 crow shark | |
Pseudocorax granti Cappetta and Case 1975 mackerel shark | |
Hemiscyllium sp. Smith 1837 carpet shark | |
"Ginglymostoma globidens" = Plicatoscyllium globidens
"Ginglymostoma globidens" = Plicatoscyllium globidens Cappetta and Case 1975 nurse shark |