TU 85 - Rose Hill [Wautubbee Fm] (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Jasper County, Mississippi (32.1° N, 89.0° W: paleocoordinates 33.4° N, 77.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wautubbee Formation, Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Wautubbee Fm, for which lithostratigraphic relations are not discussed. AGE: Early Middle Eocene in text = Lutetian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified lithology not reported

• ENVIRONMENT: Not stated in text.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Unknown. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, on the basis of figured specimen.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite

Collected by Vokes & Vokes; reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: E. Vokes and H. Vokes. REPOSITORY: USNM.

Primary reference: E. H. Vokes and H. E. Vokes. 2000. Catalogue of Tulane University fossil localities. Unpublished notes [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92687: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 24.11.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Limited to taxa described in text, and subsequent publications. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication with modern nomenclature and species-resolution identifications.
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Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Hexaplex (Hexaplex) silvatucus2, Hexaplex (Hexaplex) engonatus2, Hexaplex (Hexaplex) vanuxemi2, Typhis (Typhina) palmerae1
Hexaplex (Hexaplex) engonatus2 Conrad 1833 murex snail
Hexaplex (Hexaplex) vanuxemi2 Conrad 1865 murex snail
Typhis (Typhina) palmerae1 Gertman 1969 murex snail
1Gertman 1969; 2Vokes 1968