MGS #92b (Oligocene of the United States)

Where: Smith County, Mississippi (32.0° N, 89.5° W: paleocoordinates 32.3° N, 83.0° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Glendon Limestone Formation, Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)

• The Glendon Limestone consists of hard, ledge forming limestones (calcarenites) and some intervening sands and clays, and disconformably overlies the softer Marianna Limestone.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, hardground, gray, 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 5998: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Sarah DeLong on 13.01.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• List uses catagories, for example, R = rare...1 - 9 valves collected. C = common...10 - 99 valves collected. A = abundant...100+ valves collected.

•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.

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Chlamys ducanensis scallop
C category
Pecten byramensis scallop
100+ valves collected