Where: Wayne County, Mississippi (31.8° N, 88.7° W: paleocoordinates 32.1° N, 82.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Red Bluff Formation (Vicksburg Group), Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 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 88146: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 02.04.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Anthozoa | |
Turbinolia insignifica n. sp., "Steriphonotrochus pulcher n. gen. n. sp." = Bathycyathus pulcher
Turbinolia insignifica n. sp. Vaughan 1900 stony coral
"Steriphonotrochus pulcher n. gen. n. sp." = Bathycyathus pulcher Vaughan 1900 stony coral | |
Flabellum rhomboideum n. sp.
Flabellum rhomboideum n. sp. Vaughan 1900 stony coral | |
"Astrohelia neglecta n. sp." = Astrhelia neglecta, Oculina harrisi n. sp.
"Astrohelia neglecta n. sp." = Astrhelia neglecta Vaughan 1900 stony coral
Oculina harrisi n. sp. Vaughan 1900 stony coral | |
Balanophyllia elongata n. sp.
Balanophyllia elongata n. sp. Vaughan 1900 stony coral | |