Also known as Starkville
Where: Oktibbeha County, Mississippi (33.5° N, 88.8° W: paleocoordinates 36.4° N, 60.6° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Muldrow Member (Demopolis Chalk Formation), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• Upper Campanian, lower part of NP Zone CC23
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; chalk
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 2005
Primary reference: A. D. Gentry, J. A. Ebersole, and C. R. Kiernan. 2019. Asmodochelys parhami, a new fossil marine turtle from the Campanian Demopolis Chalk and the stratigraphic congruence of competing marine turtle phylogenies. Royal Society Open Science 6:191950:1-12 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 207339: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 07.01.2020
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Foraminifera | |
Actinopteri | |
Teleostei indet. Müller 1846 | |
Enchodus sp. Agassiz 1835 | |
Reptilia | |
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Mosasauridae indet. Gervais 1852 mosasaur | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Squalicorax pristodontus Agassiz 1835 crow shark |