Where: Hinds County, Mississippi (32.3° N, 90.2° W: paleocoordinates 32.9° N, 82.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Jackson Group, Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 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 88145: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 02.04.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Platycoenia jacksonensis n. gen. n. sp.
Platycoenia jacksonensis n. gen. n. sp. Vaughan 1900 stony coral | |
Astrangia expansa n. sp.
Astrangia expansa n. sp. Vaughan 1900 stony coral | |
"Astrohelia burnsi n. sp." = Astrhelia burnsi
"Astrohelia burnsi n. sp." = Astrhelia burnsi Vaughan 1900 stony coral | |
"Aldrichia elegans" = Platytrochus elegans
"Aldrichia elegans" = Platytrochus elegans Vaughan 1900 stony coral | |
Endopachys minutum n. sp.
Endopachys minutum n. sp. Vaughan 1900 stony coral |