Where: Monroe County, Mississippi (33.7° N, 88.7° W: paleocoordinates 36.6° N, 60.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Demopolis Chalk Formation (Selma Group), Middle Campanian to Middle Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• Only "Selma Chalk" given, but highly likely from Demopolis Chalk.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: poorly lithified chalk
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: G. A. Cooper. 1973. Fossil and recent Cancellothyridacea (Brachiopoda). Tohoku University, Science Reports, 2nd Series (Geology), Special Volume 6:371-390 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 190364: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.12.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Cricosia filosa Conrad 1866 |