Where: Alcorn County, Mississippi (34.9° N, 88.5° W: paleocoordinates 36.2° N, 57.1° W)
When: Selma Group, Late/Upper Cretaceous (100.5 - 66.0 Ma)
• Selma chalk
Environment/lithology: marine; chalk
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
• A convex fragment covered with tubercles (Enoploclytia (?) sp.);
Collected by L.W. Stephenson (6460) in 1909; reposited in the USNM
• U.S. National Museum, Cat. No. 73842 (Enoploclytia (?) sp.);
Primary reference: M. J. Rathbun. 1935. Fossil Crustacea of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain. Geological Society of America Special Paper (2)1-160 [C. Schweitzer/S. Yost]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 140912: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 19.03.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
Enoploclytia ? sp. McCoy 1849 decapod |