Also known as MCl-6-a
Where: Clarke County, Mississippi (32.0° N, 88.7° W: paleocoordinates 33.3° N, 77.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: late zone, Doby's Bluff Tongue Member (Kosciusko Formation), Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: interdistributary bay; unlithified, glauconitic, argillaceous sandstone
may be restricted marine, but fauna is diverse - unclear - may better be listed as offshore??
Size class: mesofossils
Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite, original phosphate
Collection methods: bulk, mechanical, sieve,
Primary reference: L. C. Ivany. 1997. Faunal stability and environmental change in the middle Eocene Gulf Coastal Plain (PhD Thesis, Harvard University). 1-221 [L. Ivany/L. Ivany/A. Clement]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 2414: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Linda Ivany on 03.07.1999, edited by Jocelyn Sessa
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Bivalvia | |
"Nucula mauricensis" = Nucula (Nucula) mauricensis
"Nucula mauricensis" = Nucula (Nucula) mauricensis Harris 1919 nut clam | |
Caestocorbula fossata, "Caryocorbula alabamiensis" = Corbula (Caryocorbula) alabamiensis
"Caryocorbula alabamiensis" = Corbula (Caryocorbula) alabamiensis Lea 1833 clam | |
Pitar petropolitanus venus clam | |
Tellina sp., "Tellina mooreana" = Tellina (Eurytellina) mooreana
Tellina sp. Linnaeus 1758 tellin clam
"Tellina mooreana" = Tellina (Eurytellina) mooreana Gabb 1860 tellin clam | |
Linga (Cavilinga) pomilia Conrad 1833 clam | |
"Venericardia densata" = Venericardia (Venericor) densata, "Venericardia rotunda" = Venericardia (Rotundicardia) rotunda
"Venericardia densata" = Venericardia (Venericor) densata Conrad 1845 clam
"Venericardia rotunda" = Venericardia (Rotundicardia) rotunda Lea 1833 clam | |
"Cubitostrea divaricata" = Cubitostrea (Cubitostrea) divaricata
"Cubitostrea divaricata" = Cubitostrea (Cubitostrea) divaricata Lea 1833 oyster | |
Chlamys clarkeana Aldrich 1895 scallop | |
Barbatia (Plagiarca) rhomboidella Lea 1833 clam
Pachecoa catonis clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Retusa galba snail | |
Naticidae indet. Guilding 1834 moon snail | |
Calyptraphorus velatus Conrad 1833 snail C. v. nodovelatus - originally entered as "Calyptraphorus velatus"
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Hastula houstonia auger snail | |
Glyptotoma conradiana cone shell
Conus sauridens Conrad 1833 cone shell | |
Microdrillia sp. Casey 1903 snail | |
Eopleurotoma lisboncola, Eopleurotoma nupera, "Protosurcula gabbi" = Protosurcula gabbii, Michela trabeatoides, Eosurcula sp.
Eopleurotoma lisboncola turrid
Eopleurotoma nupera turrid
"Protosurcula gabbi" = Protosurcula gabbii Conrad 1865 turrid
Michela trabeatoides Harris 1895 turrid | |
"Athleta petrosus" = Athleta petrosa Conrad 1833 volute
Athleta lisbonensis volute
Caricella pyruloides Conrad 1832 volute
Bullata semen Lea 1833 volute | |
Bonellitia parilis snail | |
Buccitriton texanum true whelk
Pseudoliva vetusta Conrad 1833 true whelk
Penion bellus Conrad 1833 true whelk | |
Latirus moorei Gabb 1860 snail | |
Levifusus mortoniopsis snail | |
Cyclostremiscus exacuus snail | |
Mesalia claibornensis turret shell | |
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Pyramidella propeacicula snail
Pyramidella pseudopymaea snail | |
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Norrisia micromphala snail | |
Anthozoa | |
Paracyathus sp. Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Platytrochus stokesi stony coral | |
Turbinolia pharetra Lea 1833 stony coral |