Where: Rankin County, Mississippi (32.3° N, 90.0° W: paleocoordinates 32.6° N, 83.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Marianna Limestone Formation, Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)
• Marianna Limeatone similar to Mint Spring Formation. Highly carbonaceous, here aragonitic shells generally have been leached leaving only the molds.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, conglomeratic, calcareous conglomerate and carbonate
Size class: mesofossils
Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite
Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,
• bivalves only.
Primary reference: D. T. Dockery. 1982. Lower Oligocene Bivalvia of the Vicksburg Group in Mississippi. Mississippi Department of Natural Resources Bureau of Geology 123:1-261 [L. Ivany/S. DeLong/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 5952: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Sarah DeLong on 04.01.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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•Categories are listed in the comments field, absolute abundances are given in the abundance field.
•Since taxa with greater than 99 specimens were not counted with absolute abundances, these were reported with category "A" for abundant.
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"Pecten poulsoni" = Pecten (Pecten) poulsoni
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