Where: Wayne County, Mississippi (31.8° N, 88.7° W: paleocoordinates 32.1° N, 82.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Red Bluff Formation, Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)

• 2 m above the base of the formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, sandy, calcareous shale

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. J. Kocurko. 1993. Eunicella sp., Octocorallia from the Red Bluff Formation, Lower Oligocene, Mississippi. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 26(1):35-39 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 85067: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 25.11.2008

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