Also known as MMNS MS.51.001
Where: Mississippi (32.3° N, 89.1° W: paleocoordinates 33.1° N, 80.2° W)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Potterchitto Member (Cook Mountain Formation), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)
• early Bartonian
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: M. D. Uhen. 2008. New protocetid whales from Alabama and Mississippi, and a new cetacean clade, Pelagiceti. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28(3):589-593 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 83981: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 12.09.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
Matutites periosus n. sp.
Matutites periosus n. sp. Feldmann et al. 2019 crab | |
Mammalia | |
Georgiacetus vogtlensis Hulbert et al. 1998 whale |