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†Eothoracosaurus mississippiensis – type locality for species †Epitonium †Epitonium sillimani †Eryma – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature †Eulima †Eulima gracilistylis †Eulima monmouthensis †Euspira †Eutrephoceras; Fossilized shell of the Jurassic-Cretaceous foam oyster ...
Typically, thick and dense bone is found in bottom feeders and low bone density is associated with mammals living in deep water. [ 27 ] The shape and function of the eyes in aquatic animals are dependent on water depth and light exposure: limited light exposure results in a retina similar to that of nocturnal terrestrial mammals.
This list of the Cenozoic life of Mississippi contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Mississippi and are between 66 million and 10,000 years of age.
MADISON COUNTY, Miss. − A Mississippi man found a tusk from the biggest mammal to ever walk across the state's land: A giant mammoth.. The discovery in Madison County is the first giant mammoth ...
The discovery of the intact mammoth tusk marks an "extremely rare find for Mississippi," according to the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ). 7-foot-long mammoth tusk found in ...
Zygorhiza ("Yoke-Root") is an extinct genus of basilosaurid early whale known from the Late Eocene (Priabonian, 38–34 Ma) of Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi, United States, and the Bartonian (43–37 Ma on the New Zealand geologic time scale) to the late Eocene of New Zealand (1]
George Phillips, paleontologist with the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science, said the Columbian mammoth tusk that was recently found in Mississippi is the first officially documented in the state.
The swamp rabbit was first described in 1874 by John Bachman as Lepus aquaticus, having a type locality of "western Alabama". [5]Two subspecies are recognized: Sylvilagus aquaticus aquaticus, the nominate subspecies that occupies most of the swamp rabbit's recognized distribution, and Sylvilagus aquaticus littoralis, which is found only in a narrow band of marshes in Mississippi, Louisiana ...