Saltillo, Selma: Campanian, Mississippi
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Hadrosauridae
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Hadrosaurinae indet.
Lambe 1918
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| MMNS VP118, maxillary tooth crown | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Mississippi | County: | Lee |
| Coordinates: | 34.4° North, 88.7° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 37.1° North, 59.5° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Campanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 7 |
| Key time interval: | Campanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Selma | Formation: | Coffee Sand | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: questionable formation assignment | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
| Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
| Disassociated major elements: | all |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 64742 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-09-13 14:48:26 | Last modified: | 2023-09-29 15:34:05 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-09-13 14:48:26 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 18687. | ETE | K. Carpenter. 1982. The oldest Late Cretaceous dinosaurs in North America?. Mississippi Geology 3(2):11-17 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 1330 | E. Daly. 1992. A list, bibliography and index of the fossil vertebrates of Mississippi. Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality, Office of Geology Bulletin 128:1-47 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano] | |
| 85879 | S. M. Ebersole and J. L. King. 2011. A review of non-avian dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous of Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and Tennessee. Bulletin of the Alabama Museum of Natural History 28:81-93 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |