Red Bluff: Rupelian, Mississippi

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Oculinidae
Oculina harrisi n. sp. Vaughan 1900
Astrohelia neglecta n. sp. Vaughan 1900
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Turbinoliidae
Turbinolia insignifica n. sp. Vaughan 1900
Steriphonotrochus pulcher n. gen., n. sp. Vaughan 1900
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Flabellidae
Flabellum rhomboideum n. sp. Vaughan 1900
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Balanophyllia elongata n. sp. Vaughan 1900
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Mississippi County:Wayne
Coordinates: 31.8° North, 88.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.1° North, 82.2° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Oligocene
Stage: Rupelian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 4
Key time interval: Rupelian
Age range of interval: 33.9 - 27.82 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Vicksburg Formation:Red Bluff
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:88146
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:U. Merkel Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-04-02 04:16:45 Last modified:2009-04-02 06:49:07
Access level:authorizer only Released:2010-01-08 10:39:56
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
13490. 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]