USGS 17261, southwest of Troy (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Pontotoc County, Mississippi (34.1° N, 88.9° W: paleocoordinates 37.7° N, 66.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ripley Formation, Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by L.W. Stephenson; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: C. W. Cooke. 1953. American Upper Cretaceous Echinoidea. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 254-A:1-44 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 197615: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 17.11.2018

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
Hemiaster wetherbyi de Loriol 1887 heart urchin