MGS 15 (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Hinds County, Mississippi (32.4° N, 90.2° W: paleocoordinates 33.0° N, 82.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Yazoo Formation (Jackson Group), Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: D. T. Dockery. 1980. Invertebrate Macropaleontolgy of the Clarke County Mississippi Area. Bulletin - Mississippi Geological, Economic and Topographic Survey 122 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/L. Eccles]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 100149: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 30.11.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Pitar (Pitar) securiformis Conrad 1865 venus clam
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Natica permunda Conrad 1854 moon snail
 Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Dolicholatirus leaensis Harris 1897 snail
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Pseudoliva vetusta Conrad 1833 true whelk
perspectiva
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Athleta symmetricus Conrad 1854 volute