Where: Wayne County, Mississippi (31.7° N, 88.7° W: paleocoordinates 31.9° N, 82.2° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Red Bluff Formation (Vicksburg Group), Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)
• Sample Level 7 3.5m above base of red bluff formation.
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•The basal member of the Vicksburg Group, the Red Bluff formation occurs just above the Yazoo Clay.
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•The contact between the Yazoo clay and the overlying silty glauconitic Red Bluff formation is abrupt and contains the features of a typical disconformable transgressive contact
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified, glauconitic, gray, silty claystone and siltstone
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•Sparsley fossiliferous blue gray clay
Size class: mesofossils
Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite
Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,
• molluscs only---Samples were dried and washed through 1.00m sieves. Wet sieved with minimal breakage. Random subsamples of the washed shell material were taken and completely picked for all identifiable shells including bivalve beaks and gastropod apices. All bivalve beaks were counted and then divided by two. Each gastropod apex was counted as one individual.
Primary reference: T. A. Hansen, P.H. Kelley, and D.M. Haasl. 2004. Paleoecological patterns in molluscan extinctions and recoveries: comparison of the Cretaceous-Paleogene and Eocene-Oligocene extinctions in North America. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 214:233-242 [A. Miller/K. Bulinski]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 74083: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Kate Bulinski on 20.07.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell | |
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Bivalvia | |
Scapharca invidiosa Casey 1903 clam | |
"Eburneopecten subminutus" = Eburneopecten (Eburneopecten) subminutus, "Pecten perplanus" = Pecten (Pecten) perplanus
"Eburneopecten subminutus" = Eburneopecten (Eburneopecten) subminutus Aldrich 1903 scallop
"Pecten perplanus" = Pecten (Pecten) perplanus Morton 1833 scallop | |
Crassinella variablis Dockery 1982 clam | |
Astarte triangulata Meyer 1886 clam | |
"Venericardia carsonensis" = Venericardia (Rotundicardia) carsonensis
"Venericardia carsonensis" = Venericardia (Rotundicardia) carsonensis Dall 1903 clam | |
"Myrtaea scopularis" = Myrtea
"Myrtaea scopularis" = Myrtea clam | |
Corbula rufaripa clam
Corbula engonata Conrad 1848 clam | |
Nemocardium eocenense Meyer 1887 cockle | |
Ervilia exterolaevis clam | |
"Chione victoria" = Lirophora (Lirophora) victoria, Pitar aldrichi
"Chione victoria" = Lirophora (Lirophora) victoria Dall 1982 venus clam
Pitar aldrichi venus clam | |
Chama sp. Linnaeus 1758 jewel box | |
Kelliella rufaripa clam | |
Verticordia dalliana clam | |
Yoldia clydoniona Dockery 1982 clam | |
Brevinucula pseudopunctata Dockery 1982 nut clam
Nucula vicksburgensis Conrad 1848 nut clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Architectonica hargeri sundial | |
Eulimella clearyensis snail | |
Acteon subaldrichi snail | |
Ringicula mississippiensis Conrad 1848 snail | |
Strombiformis caseyi snail | |
Turritella aff. premimetes turret shell | |
Natica caseyi moon snail | |
Teinostoma caseyi snail | |
Mitra conquista mitre shell | |
Mitrella sp. Risso 1826 snail | |
Gemmula amica Casey 1903 turrid | |
Microdrillia infans snail | |
Caricella reticulata volute | |
Urosalpinx aspinosus murex snail | |
Cerithiella langdoni snail | |
"Calyptraea cf. aperta" = Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta
"Calyptraea cf. aperta" = Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta Solander 1766 slipper shell |