Big Black River (Unit K) (Oligocene of the United States)
Also known as MGS locality 106
Where: Hinds County, Mississippi (32.3° N, 90.6° W: paleocoordinates 32.8° N, 83.3° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Byram Formation, Orellan (33.9 - 33.3 Ma)
• said to be Orellan
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Primary reference: E. Manning. 1997. An early Oligocene Rhinoceros jaw from the marine Byram Formation of Mississippi. Mississippi Geology 18(2):13-31 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details
PaleoDB collection 17072: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 19.05.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• correlated with nannoplankton zone NP22
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Mammalia | |
Subhyracodon occidentalis Leidy 1850 rhinoceros |