Vicksburg (Oligocene of the United States)

Where: Warren County, Mississippi (32.3° N, 90.9° W: paleocoordinates 32.7° N, 84.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Vicksburg Group, Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, glauconitic, gray, yellow limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by T. H. Aldrich

• Repository: The Johns Hopkins University (T. H. Aldrich Collection)

Primary reference: A. K. Miller. 1947. Tertiary nautiloids of the Americas. Geological Society of America Memoir 23:1-234 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 166230: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Kristina Okamoto on 06.02.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Aturiidae
Aturia berryi Stenzel 1886 nautiloid