Also known as TH-2, 33.5-36.6 m

Where: Kemper County County, Mississippi (32.8° N, 88.8° W: paleocoordinates 35.8° N, 70.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: "Ostrea thirsae beds" Member (Nanafalia Formation), Paleocene (66.0 - 56.0 Ma)

• The sampled part of the core section was tentatively considered to be within the Nanafalia formation.

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; shelly/skeletal sandstone

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: original sporopollenin

Collected by N. O. Frederiksen; reposited in the USGS

Collection methods: core, chemical, hydrochloric, hydroflouric,

• Slides are stored at the U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia

Primary reference: N. O. Frederiksen. 1998. Upper Paleocene and Lowermost Eocene Angiosperm Pollen Biostratigraphy of the Eastern Gulf Coast and Virginia. Micropaleontology 44(1):45-68 [P. Jardine/P. Jardine]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 231231: authorized by Phillip Jardine, entered by Hannah Morck on 08.08.2023

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