Where: Wayne County, Mississippi (31.7° N, 88.6° W: paleocoordinates 32.0° N, 82.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Glendon Limestone Formation, Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)
• The Glendon Limestone consists of hard, ledge forming limestones and some intervening sands and clays, and disconformably overlies the softer Marianna Limestone.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, hardground, calcareous limestone and claystone
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 5993: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Sarah DeLong on 12.01.2000, edited by Laurie Eccles
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 byramensis, Chlamys ducanensis, "Chlamys anatipes" = Anatipopecten anatipes, "Spondylus filiaris" = Spondylus (Spondylus) filiaris
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Ranina (Lophoranina) georgiana Rathbun 1935 crab | |