USGS 6872, south of New Albany: Late/Upper Maastrichtian, Mississippi
collected by L.W. Stephenson

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Nemodon eufaulensis
Sohl and Koch 1983 1 specimen
Nemodon eufaulensis (Gabb) [entered as Nemodon eufaulensis]
Bivalvia - Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Cucullaea (Idonearca) capax Conrad 1858
Sohl and Koch 1983 1 specimen
recombined as Idonearca capax
Cucullaea (Idonearca) capax Conrad
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Tenuipteria argenteus
Sohl and Koch 1983 1 specimen
Tenuiptereus argenteus (Conrad)
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Lima (Lima) reticulata Forbes 1845
Sohl and Koch 1983 1 specimen
recombined as Lima reticulata
Lima (Lima) reticulata Lyell & For
Lima (Lima) acutilineata Conrad 1858
Sohl and Koch 1983 2 specimens
recombined as Limatula acutilineata
Lima (Lima) acutilineata Conrad
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Pecten (Pecten) venustus
Sohl and Koch 1983 1 specimen
Pecten (Pecten?) venustus Morton
Camptonectes (Camptonectes) bubonis (Stephenson 1941)
Sohl and Koch 1983 1 specimen
Camptonectes (Camptonectes) bubonis (
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna (Pinna) laqueata Conrad 1858
Sohl and Koch 1983 1 specimen
Pinna (Pinna) laqueata Conrad
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula percrassa
Sohl and Koch 1983 1 specimen
Nucula percrassa Conrad
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Raninidae
Carinatus galebishopi Nyborg et al. 2017
Nyborg et al. 2017 1 specimen
Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
Hemiaster wetherbyi de Loriol 1887
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Mississippi County:Union
Coordinates: 34.4° North, 89.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:38.0° North, 66.3° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 8
*Period:Late/Upper Cretaceous *Epoch:Late/Upper Senonian
*International age/stage:Middle - Late/Upper Maastrichtian
Key time interval:Late/Upper Maastrichtian Ammonoid zone: Discoscaphites iris
Age range of interval:70.60000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Owl Creek Member:basal
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Stratigraphy comments: Haustator bilira assemblage zone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray sandy,calcareous claystone
Environment:marine indet. Tectonic setting:passive margin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original aragonite,original calcite
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Museum repositories:USNM
Collectors:L.W. Stephenson
Metadata
Also known as:Sohl and Koch OFR # 50
Database number:4131
Authorizer:M. Kosnik, W. Kiessling Enterer:M. Kosnik, U. Merkel, M. Krause
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:GCP,marine invertebrate
Created:1999-08-14 13:00:00 Last modified:2018-11-17 20:55:49
Access level:the public Released:1999-08-14 13:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

26335.1% 20600C. W. Cooke. 1953. American Upper Cretaceous Echinoidea. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 254-A:1-44 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

63727 T. Nyborg, G. E. Phillips, B. V. Bakel and F. J. Vega. 2017. A new genus and species of raninoid crab from the Upper Cretaceous of Mississippi. 91:291-298 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]
29915 J. A. Sessa, T. J. Bralower, M. E. Patzkowsky, J. C. Handley, and L. C. Ivany. 2012. Environmental and biological controls on the diversity and ecology of Late Cretaceous through early Paleogene marine ecosystems in the US Gulf Coastal Plain. Paleobiology 38(2):218-239 [M. Patzkowsky/J. Sessa/J. Sessa]
283 N. F. Sohl and C. F. Koch. 1983. Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) Mollusca from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the East Gulf Coastal Plain. USGS Open File Report 83-451:1-239 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/M. Uhen]