Horton's Mill, Chickasawhay River, loc. 1021 (Oligocene of the United States)

Where: Wayne County, Mississippi (31.7° N, 88.7° W: paleocoordinates 32.0° N, 82.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• basal Marianna

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

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 87180: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 09.03.2009

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Turbinoliidae
Turbinolia vicksburgensis Monsour 1944 stony coral