Where: Wayne County, Mississippi (31.7° N, 88.7° W: paleocoordinates 31.9° N, 82.2° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Mint Spring Formation, Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; unlithified, calcareous sandstone
Size class: mesofossils
Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite
Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,
• bivalves only
Primary reference: D. T. Dockery. 1982. Lower Oligocene Bivalvia of the Vicksburg Group in Mississippi. Mississippi Department of Natural Resources Bureau of Geology 123:1-261 [L. Ivany/S. DeLong/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 7114: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Elizabeth Kowalski on 27.04.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
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Chione craspedonta venus clam
Callista sobrina venus clam | |
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Crassatella lirasculpta n. sp.
Crassatella lirasculpta n. sp. Dockery 1982 clam | |
Glycymeris suwannensis Mansfield 1937 clam
Glycymeris intercostata Gabb 1860 clam | |
Pteria argentea Conrad 1848 pearl oyster | |
Lopha vicksburgensis Conrad 1848 oyster
Ostrea paroxis Lesueur 1829 oyster | |
"Spondylus filiaris" = Spondylus (Spondylus) filiaris, "Pecten poulsoni" = Pecten (Pecten) poulsoni
"Spondylus filiaris" = Spondylus (Spondylus) filiaris Dall 1916 scallop
"Pecten poulsoni" = Pecten (Pecten) poulsoni Morton 1834 scallop | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium varicostata tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
Turritella boycensis turret shell | |
Varicobela smithii snail | |
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Latirus protractus, Latirus aldrichi n. sp.
Latirus protractus snail
Latirus aldrichi n. sp. snail | |
Serpulorbis sp. Sasso 1827 worm shell | |
Scaphander hilgardi n. sp.
Scaphander hilgardi n. sp. snail |