MS.53.017, Rockhill Road (Cretaceous of the United States)

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
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Foraminifera
 Globigerinaceae - Globotruncanidae
Actinopteri
 Teleostei -
Teleostei indet. Müller 1846
 Aulopiformes - Enchodontidae
Enchodus sp. Agassiz 1835
Reptilia
 Testudines - Pancheloniidae
Asmodochelys parhami Gentry et al. 2019 turtle
MMNS 3985
 Squamata - Mosasauridae
Mosasauridae indet. Gervais 1852 mosasaur
Chondrichthyes
 Lamniformes - Anacoracidae
Squalicorax pristodontus Agassiz 1835 crow shark