Where: Warren County, Mississippi (32.3° N, 90.9° W: paleocoordinates 32.7° N, 84.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Mint Springs Formation (Vicksburg Group), Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)

• 3-10 ft. below 25 ft. limestone bed

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, sandy claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. Monsour. 1944. Fossil corals of the genus Turbinolia from the Golf Coast. Journal of Paleontology 18(2):109-118 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 87171: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 09.03.2009, edited by Selina Cole

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