Also known as Roadcut on NE-facing slope of Hall Creek, a tributary of the Tallahatchie River, 2.9 miles (airline) SW of Dumas, Tippah Co., MS
Where: Tippah County, Mississippi (34.7° N, 89.0° W: paleocoordinates 38.3° N, 66.2° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Nostoceras alternatum ammonoid zone, Coon Creek Tongue Member (Ripley Formation), Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• Ammonoid zone from Cobban 1974 and Cobban and Kennedy 1995.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: mesofossils
Collection methods: N.F. Sohl 1950-2
Primary reference: N. F. Sohl. 1960. Archeogastropoda, Mesogastropoda and stratigraphy of the Ripley, Owl Creek, and Prairie Bluff Formations. US Geological Survey Professional Paper 331:1-151 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 7590: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 18.07.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Oligoptycha corrugata, "Ringicula pulchella" = Ringicula (Ringicula) pulchella
"Ringicula pulchella" = Ringicula (Ringicula) pulchella Shumard 1861 snail Ringicula pulchella Shumard
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Drepanochilus triliratus, Pterocerella sp., Anchura abrupta, Graciliala calcaris, Pugnellus goldmani, Pugnellus (Pugnellus) densatus
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Volutomorpha valida, Volutomorpha producta, Volutomorpha dumasensis, Longoconcha quadrilirata, Liopeplum leioderma
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Buccinopsis solida, Buccinopsis dorothiella, Stantonella ripleyana, Ornopsis (Pornosis) modica, Ornopsis (Pornosis) digressa, Aliofusus stamineus, Ptychosyca inornata
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Paleopsephaea mutabilis, Drilluta sp., Drilluta distans, Hercorhyncus (Hercorhyncus) tippanus, Bellifusus curvicostatus, Anomalofusus subnodosus, Remera stephensoni
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Gyrodes americanus, "Gyrodes spillmani" = Gyrodes (Sohlella) spillmani, Gyrodes supraplicatus, Euspira rectilabrum
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"Cossmannia tennesseensis" = Anteglosia tennesseensis Wade 1926 snail Anteglosia tennesseensis (Wade)
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Trobus corona, Laxispira lumbricalis, Turritella howelli, "Haustator trilira" = Turritella trilira, Turritella vertebroides
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"Teinostoma clara" = Solariorbis clara
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