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Whitten farm in the SW corner of the SW quarter of section 21

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34.36583, -88.89306View on MapOpen in Google Maps
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Whitten farm in the SW corner of the SW quarter of section 21 is a fossil collection site in Union, Mississippi, cataloged in the Paleobiology Database. Fossils here come from the Ripley Formation, dated to the Late Campanian to Early Maastrichtian (83.6–66 million years ago). The depositional environment is recorded as marine indet. Documented finds include Tetracarcinus subquadratus.

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Fossil

Geologic setting

Formation
Ripley
Geologic interval
Late Campanian to Early Maastrichtian
Age
83.6–66 Ma
Depositional environment
marine indet.
Recorded occurrences
1
Locality notes

Southwest corner of the southwest quarter of Section 21, Township 8 South, Range 4 East, Union County.

Fossils found here

Tetracarcinus subquadratus
Malacostraca · Dakoticancridae

Records and references

Data: Paleobiology Database collection 142362 (CC BY 4.0)view the source record

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Coordinates: 34.36583, -88.89306

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