Where: Orleans County, Louisiana (30.1° N, 90.0° W: paleocoordinates 30.1° N, 90.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Michoud Formation, Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Michoud Fm, which overlie unnamed equivalents of the Little Woods paleosol and Deweyville Fm (Pleistocene), and is overlain by the New Orleans barrier trend. AGE: Holocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From 7.5-9.0 m in section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, silty claystone and unlithified, argillaceous siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite

Collected by Mollyn

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: G. Mollyn. REPOSITORY: Unknown.

Primary reference: W. Miller III. 1983. Stratigraphy of newly exposed Quaternary sediments, eastern Orleans Parish, Louisiana. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 17(3-4):85-104 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92773: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 28.11.2009

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