Bravo Oil Company collection R.489, Moody's Branch, Jackson (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Mississippi (32.3° N, 90.2° W: paleocoordinates 33.1° N, 81.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Moodys Branch Formation, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; unlithified siliciclastic sediments

• Sediment reworked in the offshore environment by wave turbulence and burrowing organisms. A deeper facies than the northern shelf, which contains cross-bedding, suggesting an offshore-transition environment.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the TMM

• Repository: Bureau of Economic Geology, Austin, Texas

Primary reference: H. B. Stenzel. 1935. Nautiloids of the genus Aturia from the Eocene of Texas and Alabama. Journal of Paleontology 9:551-562 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 180301: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 12.07.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Aturiidae
"Aturia (Brazaturia) alabamensis" = Aturia alabamensis
"Aturia (Brazaturia) alabamensis" = Aturia alabamensis Morton 1834 nautiloid