Where: Clarke County, Mississippi (32.2° N, 88.8° W: paleocoordinates 32.9° N, 79.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Cook Mountain Formation (Claiborne Group), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: mesofossils
Collection methods: Collected by G.D. Harris.
Primary reference: K. V. Palmer and D. C. Brann. 1965. Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Peteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda. Bulletins of American Paleontology 48:1-471 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 90708: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 13.08.2009, edited by Ursula Smith
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Anthozoa | |
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Bivalvia | |
Chlamys wahtubbeana Dall 1898 scallop | |
Bathytormus clarkensis Dall 1900 clam Bathytormus clarkensis and Bathytormus clarkensis ludovicianus
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Chama harrisi jewel box | |
Gastropoda | |
cf. Rhizorus volutatus snail | |
"Architectonica (Stellaxis) alveata" = Architectonica (Stellaxis) alveatum
"Architectonica (Stellaxis) alveata" = Architectonica (Stellaxis) alveatum Conrad 1833 sundial Architectonica (Stellaxis) alveata sp.B
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Euspira newtonensis moon snail
Polinices aratus moon snail | |
"Ficopsis texana" = Ficus
"Ficopsis texana" = Ficus fig shell | |
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Bonellitia garvani snail | |
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Marginella (Dentimargo) constrictoides margin shell | |
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"Phalium brevicostatum" = Cassis brevicostatus1
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