Also known as H-80-10-2
Where: Yazoo County, Mississippi (32.9° N, 90.4° W: paleocoordinates 33.8° N, 81.0° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Moodys Branch Formation, Lutetian to Lutetian (47.8 - 33.9 Ma)
• "Late Lutetian-Early Priabonian" (T. Hansen pers. comm.)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; unlithified, burrowed, pyritic, sandy, calcareous shale
Collection methods: bulk, mechanical, sieve,
Primary reference: S. R. Elder. 1981. Fossil assemblages of a marine transgressive sand, Moody''s Branch Formation (Upper Eocene), Louisiana and Mississippi. Unpublished M.A. Thesis, University of Texas at Austin 1-140 [T. Hansen/M. Sommers/A. Clement]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 1282: authorized by Thor Hansen, entered by Mike Sommers on 08.04.1999, edited by Jocelyn Sessa
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Gnathostomata | |
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Bivalvia | |
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"Nucula spheniopsis" = Nucula (Nucula) sphenopsis, Nucula cf. smithvillensis
"Nucula spheniopsis" = Nucula (Nucula) sphenopsis Conrad 1865 nut clam
Nucula cf. smithvillensis Stenzel and Twining 1957 nut clam originally entered as "Nucula cf. smithvillensis"
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Hilgardia multilineata Conrad 1854 pointed nut clam
Calorhadia mater Meyer 1885 pointed nut clam
Nuculana sp. Link 1807 pointed nut clam | |
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Eburneopecten scintillatus Conrad 1854 scallop | |
Lucina subcurta, "Lucina curta" = Myrtaea (Myrtaea) curta
"Lucina curta" = Myrtaea (Myrtaea) curta Conrad 1865 clam | |
Spisula jacksonensis clam | |
Callista annexa Conrad 1865 venus clam
Pitar securiformis Conrad 1865 venus clam | |
Alveinus minutus Conrad 1865 clam | |
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Corbula densata Conrad 1854 clam | |
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"Venericardia diversidentata" = Venericardia (Rotundicardia) diversidentata
"Venericardia diversidentata" = Venericardia (Rotundicardia) diversidentata Meyer 1885 clam | |
Bathytormus flexurus Conrad 1854 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
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"Turritella alveata" = Kapalmerella alveata
"Turritella alveata" = Kapalmerella alveata Conrad 1854 turret shell | |
Calyptraphorus stamineus snail | |
Sinistrella americana Aldrich 1885 turrid | |
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Hipponix pygmaeus hoof shell | |
Euspira jacksonensis Harris and Palmer 1947 moon snail
Polinices weisbordi moon snail | |
Pyramidella meyeri Cossmann 1893 snail | |
"Actaeon idoneus" = Acteon idoneus
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Retusa jacksonensis snail |