MGS 19 (Eocene of the United States)

Also known as PRI 3661

Where: Lauderdale County, Mississippi (32.4° N, 88.7° W: paleocoordinates 34.5° N, 74.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bashi Member (Hatchetigbee Bluff Formation), Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: D. T. Dockery. 1980. Invertebrate Macropaleontolgy of the Clarke County Mississippi Area. Bulletin - Mississippi Geological, Economic and Topographic Survey 122 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/L. Eccles]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 100148: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 30.11.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Carditida - Carditidae
"Venericardia (? Venericor) greggiana" = Venericardia (Baluchicardia) greggiana Dall 1903 clam
Venericardia (Venericor) bashiplata Gardner and Bowles 1939 clam
cf. Venericardia nanaplata Gardner and Bowles 1939 clam
nanna
 Carditida - Astartidae
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
"Corbula subengonata" = Cuneocorbula subengonata
"Corbula subengonata" = Cuneocorbula subengonata Dall 1898 clam
 Cardiida - Veneridae
"Callista (Macrocallista) sylvaerupis" = Macrocallista
"Callista (Macrocallista) sylvaerupis" = Macrocallista venus clam
 Cardiida - Ungulinidae
"Felaniella sp." = Diplodonta
"Felaniella sp." = Diplodonta Bronn 1831 clam
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Chlamys choctavensis Aldrich 1895 scallop
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Odontogryphaea sp. Ihering 1903 oyster
Crassostrea sp. Sacco 1897 oyster
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
 Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
 Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
Cornulina minax Solander 1766 snail
compressa
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
"Turritella rina" = Haustator rina, Turritella gilberti
"Turritella rina" = Haustator rina turret shell
Turritella rina var.
Turritella gilberti turret shell
 Heterostropha - Acteonidae
Tornatellaea bella Conrad 1860 snail
 Trochoidea - Solariellidae
Scaphopoda
 Gadilida - Gadilidae
Cadulus sp. Philippi 1844 tusk shell
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Astrocoeniidae