Also known as Old Cocoa Post Office

Where: Choctaw County, Alabama (31.9° N, 88.5° W: paleocoordinates 32.4° N, 80.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Pachuta Member (Yazoo Formation), Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• Listed in Kellogg as Jackson Formation. Later, the Jackson was elevated to group status. Identification of Pachuta Member as the whale-bearing stratum based on other publications and personal observation (M. D. Uhen).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; poorly lithified mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ)

Primary reference: F. A. Lucas. 1900. The pelvic girdle of Zeuglodon, Basilosaurus cetoides (Owen), with notes on onther portions of the skeleton. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 23(1211):327-331 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 28983: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 09.03.2003, edited by Jason Head, Marko Manojlovic and Terri Cleary

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