Pinkston Hill (Eocene of the United States)
Where: Scott County, Mississippi (32.3° N, 89.4° W: paleocoordinates 32.8° N, 81.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Pachuta Member (Yazoo Formation), Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: foreshore; claystone
• The Yazoo Clay Formation exhibits a shallow subtropical inner shelf environment with abundant life evolving into a deeper more clay-dominated middle shelf environment.
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Primary reference: H. R. Bergquist. 1942. Scott County Geology. Mississippi State Geological Survey Bulletin 49:1-146 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 45636: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 20.11.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia | |
Basilosaurus cetoides Owen 1839 whale | |
Archaeoceti indet. whale | |
Gastropoda | |
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell | |
Bivalvia | |
"Venericardia rotunda" = Venericardia (Rotundicardia) rotunda
"Venericardia rotunda" = Venericardia (Rotundicardia) rotunda Lea 1833 clam | |
"Protocardia nicolleti" = Nemocardium nicolletti
"Protocardia nicolleti" = Nemocardium nicolletti Conrad 1854 cockle | |
Callocardia securiformis venus clam | |
Corbula wailesiana clam |