Josey Creek, northwest of Starkville (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Oktibbeha County, Mississippi (33.5° N, 88.9° W: paleocoordinates 37.1° 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)

• From the upper Prairie Bluff Chalk

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: calcareous siltstone

• Thin calcareous siltstones

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by P.H. Dunn in 1948

• Repository: Kansas University Museum, Invertebrate Paleontology Collection

Primary reference: R. C. Moore. 1967. Unique stalked crinoids from Upper Cretaceous of Mississippi. The University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions 17:1-35 [M. Clapham/M. Schoerner/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 213727: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 09.09.2020

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Taxonomic list

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Crinoidea
 Comatulida - Bourgueticrinidae
Dunnicrinus mississippiensis n. gen. n. sp.
Dunnicrinus mississippiensis n. gen. n. sp. Moore 1967 Feather star