Red Bluff (Oligocene of the United States)

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
 Scleractinia - Oculinidae
Oculina harrisi n. sp., "Astrohelia neglecta n. sp." = Astrhelia neglecta
Oculina harrisi n. sp. Vaughan 1900 stony coral
"Astrohelia neglecta n. sp." = Astrhelia neglecta Vaughan 1900 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Balanophyllia elongata n. sp. Vaughan 1900 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Turbinoliidae
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
 Scleractinia - Flabellidae
Flabellum rhomboideum n. sp. Vaughan 1900 stony coral