MGS Loc. 99a - Cleary [Mint Spring Fm]: Rupelian, Mississippi
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Thecostraca
- Balanomorpha
- Chelonibiidae
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Chelonibia melleni
Zullo 1982
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Zullo 1982 | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Nuculida
- Nuculidae
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Nucula vicksburgensis
Conrad 1848
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A category | |||||||||
| 100+ valves collected | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Nuculanida
- Yoldiidae
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Yoldia serica
(Conrad 1848)
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A category | |||||||||
| 100+ valves collected | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Hiatellida
- Hiatellidae
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Panopea oblongata
Conrad 1848
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8 individuals | |||||||||
| R category | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Thraciida
- Periplomatidae
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Periploma macneili
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1 individual | |||||||||
| R category | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Poromyida
- Verticordiidae
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Verticordia dalliana
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16 individuals | |||||||||
| C category | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Poromyida
- Cuspidariidae
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Plectodon intastriata
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3 individuals | |||||||||
| R category | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Pholadida
- Corbulidae
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Corbula rufaripa
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10 individuals | |||||||||
| C category | ||||||||||
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Corbula laqueata
Casey 1903
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A category | |||||||||
| 100+ valves collected | ||||||||||
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Corbula engonata
Conrad 1848
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A category | |||||||||
| 100+ valves collected | ||||||||||
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Tiza alta
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7 individuals | |||||||||
| R category | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Pholadida
- Teredinidae
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Teredo sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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3 individuals | |||||||||
| R category | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Cardiidae
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Laevicardium leptorimum n. sp.
Dockery 1982
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20 individuals | |||||||||
| C category | ||||||||||
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Nemocardium diversum
(Conrad 1848)
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A category | |||||||||
| 100+ valves collected | ||||||||||
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Agnocardia glebosum
(Conrad 1848)
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4 individuals | |||||||||
| R category | ||||||||||
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Trachycardium planicostata n. sp.
Dockery 1982
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11 individuals | |||||||||
| C category | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Semelidae
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Semele mississippiensis
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1 individual | |||||||||
| R category | ||||||||||
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Semele staminea
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3 individuals | |||||||||
| R category | ||||||||||
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Ervilia exteroaevis n. sp.
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50 individuals | |||||||||
| C category | ||||||||||
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Semelina pilsbryi
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88 individuals | |||||||||
| C category | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Donacidae
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Donax funerata
Conrad 1848
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1 individual | |||||||||
| R category | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Psammobiidae
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Gari papyria
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4 individuals | |||||||||
| R category | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Tellinidae
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Tellina subprotexta n. sp.
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A category | |||||||||
| 100+ valves collected | ||||||||||
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Tellina vicksburgensis
Conrad 1848
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1 individual | |||||||||
| R category | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Mactridae
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Spisula inaequilateralis
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70 individuals | |||||||||
| C category | ||||||||||
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Spisula mississippiensis
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1 individual | |||||||||
| R category | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Veneridae
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Callista sobrina
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A category | |||||||||
| 100+ valves collected | ||||||||||
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Callista goniopisthus
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15 individuals | |||||||||
| C category | ||||||||||
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Pitar megacostata
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1 individual | |||||||||
| R category | ||||||||||
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Pitar aldrichi
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4 individuals | |||||||||
| R category | ||||||||||
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Chione victoria
(Dall 1982)
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7 individuals | |||||||||
| R category | ||||||||||
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Chione craspedonta
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1 individual | |||||||||
| R category | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Ungulinidae
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Diplodonta eburnea
(Conrad 1848)
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11 individuals | |||||||||
| C category | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Chamidae
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Chama sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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2 individuals | |||||||||
| R category | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Sportellidae
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Sportella oblonga
(Conrad 1848)
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20 individuals | |||||||||
| C category | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Lucinida
- Lucinidae
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Lucina imbricolamella n. sp.
Dockery 1982
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36 individuals | |||||||||
| C category | ||||||||||
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Lucina triloba n. sp.
Dockery 1982
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2 individuals | |||||||||
| R category | ||||||||||
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Myrtea vicksburgensis
(Casey 1903)
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A category | |||||||||
| 100+ valves collected | ||||||||||
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Lucina sp.
Bruguière 1797
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1 individual | |||||||||
| R category | ||||||||||
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Lucina varisculpta n. sp.
Dockery 1982
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80 individuals | |||||||||
| C category | ||||||||||
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Lucina choctavensis
Meyer 1886
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35 individuals | |||||||||
| C category | ||||||||||
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Anodontia mississippiensis
(Conrad 1848)
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A category | |||||||||
| 100+ valves collected | ||||||||||
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Lucina posteocurta n. sp.
Dockery 1982
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A category | |||||||||
| 100+ valves collected | ||||||||||
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Divaricella subrigaultiana
(Meyer 1886)
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6 individuals | |||||||||
| R category | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Astartidae
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Astarte menthifontis n. sp.
Dockery 1982
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A category | |||||||||
| 100+ valves collected | ||||||||||
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Astarte planilamella n. sp.
Dockery 1982
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11 individuals | |||||||||
| C category | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Carditidae
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Venericardia carsonensis
Dall 1903
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4 individuals | |||||||||
| R category | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Crassatellidae
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Crassinella variablis n. sp.
Dockery 1982
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15 individuals | |||||||||
| C category | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Mytilida
- Mytilidae
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Arcoperna linteata n. sp.
Dockery 1982
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2 individuals | |||||||||
| R category | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Mytilida
- Crenellidae
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Crenella fenestra n. sp.
Dockery 1982
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18 individuals | |||||||||
| C category | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Ostreidae
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Lopha vicksburgensis
(Conrad 1848)
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2 individuals | |||||||||
| R category | ||||||||||
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Ostrea sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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4 individuals | |||||||||
| R category | ||||||||||
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Ostrea paroxis
Lesueur 1829
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20 individuals | |||||||||
| C category | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Pinnidae
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Atrina argentea
(Conrad 1848)
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2 individuals | |||||||||
| R category | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Pteriidae
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Pteria argentea
(Conrad 1848)
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1 individual | |||||||||
| R category | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Pectinidae
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Chlamys menthifontis
Glawe 1970
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A category | |||||||||
| 100+ valves collected | ||||||||||
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Pecten poulsoni
Morton 1834
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A category | |||||||||
| 100+ valves collected | ||||||||||
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Eburneopecten subminutus
(Aldrich 1903)
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44 individuals | |||||||||
| C category | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Anomiidae
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Anomia microstriata n. sp.
Dockery 1982
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2 individuals | |||||||||
| R category | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Limidae
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Limaria staminea
(Conrad 1848)
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2 individuals | |||||||||
| R category | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Arcidae
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Barbatia mississippiensis
(Conrad 1848)
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1 individual | |||||||||
| R category | ||||||||||
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Scapharca chordicosta n. sp.
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1 individual | |||||||||
| R category | ||||||||||
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Scapharca delicatula
(Casey 1903)
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85 individuals | |||||||||
| C category | ||||||||||
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Trinacria menthifontis n. sp.
Dockery 1982
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1 individual | |||||||||
| R category | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Glycymerididae
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Glycymeris suwannensis
Mansfield 1937
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3 individuals | |||||||||
| R category | ||||||||||
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Glycymeris arctata
(Conrad 1848)
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11 individuals | |||||||||
| C category | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Limopsidae
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Limopsis sp.
Sassi 1827
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1 individual | |||||||||
| R category | ||||||||||
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Scaphopoda
- Gadilida
- Gadilidae
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Cadulus vicksburgensis
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MacNeil and Dockery 1984 | |||||||||
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Cadulus quadriturritus
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MacNeil and Dockery 1984 | |||||||||
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Scaphopoda
- Dentaliida
- Dentaliidae
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Dentalium opaculum
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Dentalium varicostata n. sp.
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Scaphopoda
- Dentaliida
- Fustiariidae
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Fustiaria sp.
Stoliczka 1868
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Fustiaria menthafonta n. sp.
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Gastropoda
- Cerithiidae
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Semivertagus menthafontis n. sp.
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Gastropoda
- Vitrinellidae
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Discopsis pilsbryi n. sp.
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Gastropoda
- Naticidae
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Ampullinopsis mississippiensis
(Conrad 1848)
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Gastropoda
- Aporrhaidae
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Aporrhais menthafontis n. sp.
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Gastropoda
- Eocypraeidae
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Sulcocypraea lintea
(Conrad 1848)
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| Sulcocypraea lintea menthafons | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Ficidae
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Ficus mississippiensis
Conrad 1848
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Turridae
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Scobinella pluriplicata
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| Scobinella pluriplicata subpluriplicata | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Conidae
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Conus alveatus
Conrad 1865
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Cochlespiridae
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Tropiscurcula caseyi
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Cochlespira cookei n. sp.
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Terebridae
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Terebra divisura
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| Terebra divisura clearyensis | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Borsoniidae
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Bathytoma congesta
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| Bathytoma congesta fontis | ||||||||||
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Microdrillia vicksburgella
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Buccinidae
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Phos vicksburgensis
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Melongenidae
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Levifusus spiniger
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Levifusus nodulatum
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Fasciolariidae
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Latirus protractus
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Latirus aldrichi n. sp.
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MacNeil and Dockery 1984 | |||||||||
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Clavilithes vicksburgensis
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MacNeil and Dockery 1984 | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Costellariidae
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Microsurcula mentha n. sp.
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unclassified
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Vetidrillia palmerae n. gen., n. sp.
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Mitridae
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Mitra conquista
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Cancellariidae
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Agatrix mississippiensis
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Olividae
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Oliva affluens
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Muricidae
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Chicoreus mississippiensis
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Volutidae
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Lyria mississippiensis
Conrad 1843
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Gastropoda
- Cassidae
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Cassis flintensis
Mansfield 1940
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Sconsia lintea
Conrad 1848
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Phalium menthafons n. sp.
MacNeil and Dockery 1984
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Gastropoda
- Ranellidae
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Sassia conradiana
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| Sassia conradiana menthafons | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Acteonidae
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Rictaxis andersoni
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Acteon meyeri n. sp.
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Acteon menthafons n. sp.
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Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Ringiculidae
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Ringicula crassata n. sp.
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Ringicula mississippiensis
Conrad 1848
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| Ringicula mississippiensis petila | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Pyramidellidae
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Eulimella clearyensis n. sp.
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Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Architectonicidae
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Architectonica meliconae
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Gastropoda
- Opisthobranchia
- Retusidae
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Volvulella subspinosa n. sp.
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Gastropoda
- Opisthobranchia
- Cylichnidae
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Acteocina crassiplica
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| INCLUDES: Acteocina crassiplica altispira | ||||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Mississippi | County: | Rankin |
| Coordinates: | 32.2° North, 90.2° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 32.5° North, 83.7° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Oligocene |
| Stage: | Rupelian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 4 |
| *Period: | Early/Lower Tertiary | *Epoch: | Early/Lower Oligocene |
| *International age/stage: | Early/Lower Rupelian - Early/Lower Rupelian | ||
| Key time interval: | Rupelian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 33.9 - 27.82 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Mint Spring | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: The Mint Spring Formation is mostly fossiliferous sands that lie disconformably above the Forest Hill Formation. This contact is characterized by shell gravels that are largely comprised of the bivalve "Callista" by lithified clay clasts bored by the bivalve "Jouannetia", and by shark and ray teeth. Lithified clay clasts are especially common at the base of the Mint Spring Formation alnog the Chickasawhay River in Wayne County. Here clay clasts are numerous enough to have created a cobble bottom on the Mint Spring sea floor. These clasts formed a hard substrate utilized by a variety of encrusting organisms. The sands of the Mint Spring Formation are moderately clean, and often show evidence of cross-bedding. These sands have macrofauna dominated by bivalves. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified conglomeratic,calcareous conglomerate | ||
| Secondary lithology: | wackestone | ||
| Includes fossils? | Y | ||
| Includes fossils? | Y | ||
| Environment: | offshore | Tectonic setting: | passive margin |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original aragonite,original calcite |
| Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | all microfossils,some macrofossils,difficult macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | bulk,mechanical,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: bivalves only | |
| Taxonomic list comments:list uses catagories to denote values. For example: R = rare, 1 - 9 organisms found. C = common, 10 - 99 organisms found. A = abundant 100+ organisms found.
Categories are listed in the comments field, absolute abundances are given in the abundance field. Since taxa with greater than 99 specimens were not counted with absolute abundances, these were reported with category "A" for abundant. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 5943 | ||
| Authorizer: | L. Ivany, A. Hendy | Enterer: | S. DeLong, A. Hendy |
| Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | GCP,marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2000-01-03 11:48:56 | Last modified: | 2014-08-21 11:41:17 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2000-01-03 11:48:56 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 323. | 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] |
Secondary references:
| 447 | F. S. MacNeil and D. T. Dockery. 1984. Lower Oligocene Gastropoda, Scaphopoda, and Cephalopoda of the Vicksburg Group in Mississippi. Mississippi Department of Natural Resources, Bureau of Geology Bulletin 124:1-415 [L. Ivany/E. Kowalski/P. Wagner] | |
| 52323 | V. A. Zullo. 1982. A new species of the turtle barnacle Chelonibia Leach, 1817, (Cirripedia, Thoracica) from the Oligocene Mint Spring and Byram Formations of Mississippi. Mississippi Geology 2(3):1-6 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |