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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
"Schizaster armiger n. sp." = Paraster armiger2
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Chondrichthyes | |
Galeocerdo alabamensis n. sp.6
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"Sphyrna gilmorei n. sp." = Negaprion gilmorei6
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"Carcharodon angustidens" = Otodus (Carcharocles) angustidens9
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Reptilia | |
"Hadrianus schucherti n. sp." = Cymatholcus schucherti4
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Pterosphenus schucherti n. gen. n. sp.7
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Mammalia | |
Zygorhiza kochii5, Zygorhiza kochii5, Cynthiacetus maxwelli8, "Alabamornis gigantea n. gen. n. sp." = Basilosaurus cetoides1
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Actinopteri | |
Cylindracanthus rectus9 Agassiz 1843 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Terebratulina alabamensis3 Cooper 1988 |