Wautubbee (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Clarke County, Mississippi (32.1° N, 88.9° W: paleocoordinates 33.1° N, 78.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lisbon Formation (Claiborne Group), Middle Eocene (47.8 - 37.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. W. Vaughan. 1900. The Eocene and lower Oligocene coral faunas of the United States with descriptions of a few doubtfully Cretaceous species. United States Geological Survey, Monograph 39:1-263 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 87837: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.03.2009

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Endopachys lonsdalei
Endopachys lonsdalei Vaughan 1900 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Paracyathus bellus n. sp., Paracyathus alternatus
Paracyathus bellus n. sp. Vaughan 1900 stony coral
Paracyathus alternatus Vaughan 1900 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Turbinoliidae
Turbinolia wautubbeensis n. sp.
Turbinolia wautubbeensis n. sp. Vaughan 1900 stony coral