Catalpa Creek (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as OC.4

Where: Oktibbeha County, Mississippi (33.4° N, 88.8° W: paleocoordinates 37.0° N, 66.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Prairie Bluff Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• Basal Prairie Bluff

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: chalk

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by F.F. Mellen

• Repository: Mississippi State University

Primary reference: J. S. H. Collins. 1973. Cirripedes from the Upper Cretaceous of Alabama and Mississippi, Eastern Gulf Region, USA. Part 1. Palaeontology. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Geology 23(6):349-380 [C. Schweitzer/L. Baltzly]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 210597: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 06.06.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Thecostraca
 Scalpellomorpha - Scalpellidae
Virgiscalpellum gabbi Pilsbry 1933 barnacle
n. ssp. apertus