Also known as (H-79-11)

Where: Hinds County, Mississippi (32.3° N, 90.2° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 36.4° N, 72.3° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Yazoo Clay Formation, Lutetian to Lutetian (48.1 - 33.9 Ma)

• "Late Lutetian - early Priabonian." (T. Hansen, pers. comm.)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; unlithified, burrowed, silty, calcareous shale

Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,

Primary reference: S. R. Elder. 1981. Fossil assemblages of a marine transgressive sand, Moody''s Branch Formation (Upper Eocene), Louisiana and Mississippi. Unpublished M.A. Thesis, University of Texas at Austin 1-140 [T. Hansen/M. Sommers/A. Clement]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 1427: authorized by Thor Hansen, entered by Mike Sommers on 13.04.1999, edited by Jocelyn Sessa

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