TU 924, Newton (Wautubbee Lst) (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Newton County, Mississippi (32.3° N, 89.1° W: paleocoordinates 33.6° N, 77.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Earlier papers 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 in 1967; reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

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

Primary reference: E. H. Vokes. 1968. Cenozoic Muricidae of the Western Atlantic region. Part IV - Hexaplex and Murexiella. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 6(3):85-126 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92690: 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
Typhis (Typhina) palmerae, Hexaplex (Hexaplex) silvatucus, Hexaplex (Hexaplex) vanuxemi
Typhis (Typhina) palmerae Gertman 1969 murex snail
Hexaplex (Hexaplex) vanuxemi Conrad 1865 murex snail