Where: Jackson County, Mississippi (30.7° N, 88.7° W: paleocoordinates 31.0° N, 82.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Red Bluff Formation, Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Red Bluff Clay, for which lithostratigraphic relationships are not discussed. AGE: Vicksburgian = Rupelian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within the Red Bluff Clay.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the USNM
• COLLECTOR: Unknown. REPOSITORY: USNM.
Primary reference: F. Canu and R. S. Bassler. 1920. North American early Tertiary Bryozoa. Smithsonian Institute Bulletin 106:1-843 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 90547: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 04.08.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gymnolaemata | |
Lunularia (Oligotresium) vicksburgensis Conrad 1848 | |
"Hippodiplosia buccata" = Reussia
"Hippodiplosia buccata" = Reussia | |
Metrarabdotos grande n. sp.
Metrarabdotos grande n. sp. | |
Schizomavella longirostris n. sp.
Schizomavella longirostris n. sp. | |
Leiosella orbicularia n. sp.
Leiosella orbicularia n. sp. |