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Vicksburg - Byram Marl, USA

GroupVicksburg
FormationByram Marl
Age:33.9 - 28.1 Ma
Oligocene
IntervalRupelian
Lithologymarl
Number of Collections2
Number of Occurrences3

Recorded Sample Locations

LocationRegionStratigraphic Name
RosefieldCatahoula Parish, Louisiana, USAVicksburg - Byram Marl
Perdue Hill [Suwannee Fm]Monroe County, Alabama, USAVicksburg - Byram Marl

Recorded Fossils

Accepted NameHierarchyAge
Callinectes alabamensis
species
7Animalia : Arthropoda : Malacostraca : Decapoda : Portunidae : Callinectes : Callinectes alabamensis33.9 - 28.4 Ma
Oligocene
Turbinolia vicksburgensis
species
7Animalia : Cnidaria : Anthozoa : Scleractinia : Turbinoliidae : Turbinolia : Turbinolia vicksburgensis33.9 - 28.1 Ma
Oligocene
Arbia aldrichi
species
7Animalia : Echinodermata : Echinoidea : Arbacioida : Arbaciidae : Arbia : Arbia aldrichi33.9 - 28.4 Ma
Oligocene

References

Clark W. B., Twitchell M. W. (1915) The Mesozoic and Cenozoic Echinodermata of the United States, United States Geological Survey Bulletin 54, 1-341
Rathbun M. J. (1935) Fossil Crustacea of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain, Geological Society of America Special Paper 2, 1-160
Monsour E. (1944) Fossil corals of the genus Turbinolia from the Golf Coast, Journal of Paleontology 18 2, 109-118
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
 
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