Also known as MCl-6-b
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)
• thin shelly bed above main shell bed - probable storm bed
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: interdistributary bay; unlithified, graded, glauconitic, argillaceous sandstone
probably storm bed
diverse fauna, but may be restricted marine - better listed as offshore??
Size class: mesofossils
Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite, original phosphate
Collection methods: bulk,
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 2415: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Linda Ivany on 03.07.1999, edited by Jocelyn Sessa
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Turbinolia pharetra Lea 1833 stony coral | |
Scaphopoda | |
Cadulus sp. Philippi 1844 tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
"Nucula mauricensis" = Nucula (Nucula) mauricensis
"Nucula mauricensis" = Nucula (Nucula) mauricensis Harris 1919 nut clam | |
"Cubitostrea divaricata" = Cubitostrea (Cubitostrea) divaricata
"Cubitostrea divaricata" = Cubitostrea (Cubitostrea) divaricata Lea 1833 oyster | |
"Venericardia rotunda" = Venericardia (Rotundicardia) rotunda
"Venericardia rotunda" = Venericardia (Rotundicardia) rotunda Lea 1833 clam | |
Caestocorbula fossata, "Caryocorbula alabamiensis" = Corbula (Caryocorbula) alabamiensis
"Caryocorbula alabamiensis" = Corbula (Caryocorbula) alabamiensis Lea 1833 clam | |
Abra nitens Lea 1833 abra | |
Tellina sp. Linnaeus 1758 tellin clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Hipponix pygmaeus hoof shell | |
Cyclostremiscus exacuus snail | |
Naticidae indet. Guilding 1834 moon snail
Sinum inconstans moon snail | |
Hastula houstonia auger snail | |
Michela trabeatoides Harris 1895 turrid
Eosurcula moorei Gabb 1860 turrid
Eopleurotoma lisboncola turrid | |
Microdrillia sp. Casey 1903 snail | |
Glyptotoma conradiana cone shell
Conus sauridens Conrad 1833 cone shell | |
Cochlespira engonata Conrad 1865 snail | |
"Athleta petrosus" = Athleta petrosa, Bullata semen
"Athleta petrosus" = Athleta petrosa Conrad 1833 volute
Bullata semen Lea 1833 volute | |
"Murex vanuxemi" = Hexaplex (Hexaplex) vanuxemi, Murex fusates
"Murex vanuxemi" = Hexaplex (Hexaplex) vanuxemi Conrad 1865 murex snail
Murex fusates murex snail | |
Latirus moorei Gabb 1860 snail | |
Levifusus mortoniopsis snail
Levifusus mortonii snail | |
"Mitrella (Columbellopsis) mississippiensis" = Columbellopsis
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Buccitriton texanum true whelk
Pseudoliva vetusta Conrad 1833 true whelk | |
Trigonostoma babylonicum Lea 1833 snail | |
"Ficopsis texana" = Ficus
"Ficopsis texana" = Ficus fig shell | |
Calyptraphorus velatus Conrad 1833 snail C. v. nodovelatus - originally entered as "Calyptraphorus velatus"
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Eulima extremis Aldrich 1911 snail | |
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Architectonica elaborata Conrad 1833 sundial | |
Pyramidella propeacicula snail | |
"Actaeon idoneus" = Acteon idoneus, "Actaeon pomilius" = Acteon
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Retusa galba snail | |
Norrisia micromphala snail | |
Gymnolaemata | |
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