Tolar-Stevens Dinosaur Site (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Booneville, TSDS

Where: Prentiss County, Mississippi (34.7° N, 88.6° W: paleocoordinates 37.3° N, 59.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Coffee Sand Formation (Selma Group), Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• lower part of formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithology not reported

• "a tidal flat in the intertidal zone"
• "interlaminated carbonaceous clays, silts, and fine-grained sands along with teredinid-bored lignitized logs"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collected in 2013–

Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ),

Primary reference: N. I. Baghai-Riding, C. L. Hotton, O. Pharr, D. Hoffman, A. Brink, G. Phillips, and J. Starnes. 2024. Palynology of a Late Cretaceous vertebrate site in northeastern Mississippi, U.S.A.—implications for floristics, biostratigraphy and climate. 12th North American Paleontological Convention, Program with Abstracts, edited by J. A. Mantilla Wilson & M. Friedman. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 39:111more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 237075: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 15.11.2024

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Polypodiopsida
  - Gleicheniaceae
 Schizaeales - Polypodiidae
  - Polypodiaceae
Polypodiaceae indet. Presl and Presl 1822
Sphagnaceae
  - Sphagnaceae
Sphagnaceae indet. Dumortier 1829
Lycopodiopsida
 Lycopodiales - Lycopodiaceae
Lycopodiaceae sp. Mirbel 1802 clubmoss
Equisetopsida
 Cupressales - Pinidae
Inaperturopollenites dubius Thomson and Pflug 1953
Holkopollenites
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Holkopollenites propinquus Christopher and Prowell 2010
Magnoliopsida
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Echimonocolpites sp. der Hammen and de Mutis 1965
Angiospermae
 Mesangiosperms - Liliaceae
Liliacidites sp. Couper 1953
Pinopsida
 Pinales - Pinaceae
Pinaceae indet. Rudolphi 1830
Bivalvia
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Trigonia sp. Bruguière 1789 clam
Chondrichthyes
 Lamniformes - Mitsukurinidae
Scapanorhynchus sp. Woodward 1889 goblin shark
 Lamniformes - Anacoracidae
Squalicorax sp. Whitley 1939 crow shark
Reptilia
 Testudines - Toxochelyidae
Toxochelyidae indet. Baur 1895 sea turtle
 Loricata -
Crocodylia indet. crocodilian
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869 hadrosaurid
Actinopteri
 Aulopiformes - Enchodontidae
Enchodus sp. Agassiz 1835
Osculapollis aequalis
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Osculapollis aequalis Tschudy 1975
Complexiopollis
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