M 351 (Eocene of the United States)

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)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

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 92174: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 02.11.2009, edited by Ursula Smith

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
 Trochoidea - Solariellidae
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Hilgardia multilineata2 Conrad 1854 pointed nut clam
 Carditida - Astartidae
"Lirodiscus protractus" = Astarte protracta
"Lirodiscus protractus" = Astarte protracta Meyer 1886 clam
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Paracyathus bellus1 Vaughan 1900 stony coral