Also known as MGS 129

Where: Lee County, Mississippi (34.4° N, 88.6° W: paleocoordinates 37.3° N, 60.0° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Chapelville Member (Coffee Sand Formation), Early/Lower Campanian to Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• Coffee Sand ranges from the Globotruncanita elevata to Globotruncana ventricosa zone according to Mancini et al. (1996).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; unlithified, glauconitic sandstone and unlithified siltstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite

Reposited in the FMNH

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

Primary reference: M. A. Kosnik. 2005. Changes in Late Cretaceous - early Tertiary benthic marine assemblages: analyses from the North American coastal plain shallow-shelf. Paleobiology 31(3):459-479 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 32140: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 06.06.2003, edited by Austin Hendy and Pete Wagner

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