Dasmosmilia reesidei Wells, 1933

Remarks

• Collection:   Mississippi Museum of Natural Science.  Photos by Curator George Phillips.  Thanks!

• Formation:   Navarro Group Equivalent, Prairie Bluff Formation

• Location:     Oktibbeha County, Mississippi

General Info

Synonyms (older names and misidentifications in the literature)

• 1933 Dasmosmilia reesidei Wells

Stratigraphic Occurrence

• Navarro Group, Corsicana Marl of south-central Texas

• Prairie Bluff Chalk of Mississippi

• Prairie Bluff Chalk of Alabama

Age

• Dasmosmilia reesidei Wells is a Maastrichtian coral (~67-65 mya).

Geographic Occurrence (a tentative list)

• Guadalupe County, Texas

• Noxubee County, Mississippi

• Oktibbeha County, Mississippi

• Wilcox County, Alabama

Remarks

 For identification, descriptions, and ranges, see:

Wells, J. W.  1933.  Corals of the Cretaceous of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains and Western Interior of the United States.  Bulletins of American Paleontology 67, 221-222, plate 12, fig's 8-9; plate 14, fig's 25-29.