MGS 126 (Cretaceous to of the United States)

Where: Mississippi (32.6° N, 89.5° W: paleocoordinates 35.8° N, 61.6° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Globotruncanita elevata foram zone, Coffee Sand Formation (Selma Group), 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).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: D. T. Dockery. 1993. The Streptoneuran gastropods, exclusive of the Stenoglossa, of the coffee sand (Campanian) of Northeastern Mississippi. Bulletin (Mississippi Office of Geology) 129:1-191 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 7460: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 18.07.2000

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Architectonicidae
Pseudomalaxis pateriformis Stephenson 1955 snail
Pseudomalaxis pateriformis Stephenson