Metopaster tennesseensis Wade, 1926

Remarks

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

• Formation:  Demopolis Formation, Bluffport Marl Member

• Location:     Oktibbeha County, Mississippi

• This is the dorsal and ventral side of a marginal plate.

General Info

Synonyms (older names and misidentifications in the literature) 

• 1926 Metopaster tennesseensis Wade

Stratigraphic Occurrence

• Ripley Formation of Mississippi

• Ripley Formation of Tennessee

• Dempolis Formation, Bluffport Marl Member of Mississippi

Age

• Metopaster tennesseensis Wadeis a Maastrichtian starfish (~67 mya).

Geographic Occurrence (by no means an all-inclusive list)

• McNairy County, TN

• Oktibbeha County, MS

Remarks

         For identification and descriptions, see:

• Wade, B.  1926.  The Fauna of the Ripley Formation on Coon Creek, Tennessee.  United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 137, 27-28, plate 1, fig's 11-19.