Also known as H-79-12-3
Where: Yazoo County, Mississippi (33.0° N, 90.2° W: paleocoordinates 33.9° N, 80.7° 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, calcareous siltstone
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 Unpublished M.A. Thesis, University of Texas at Austin 1-140 [T. Hansen/M. Sommers/A. Clement]more details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 1288: authorized by Thor Hansen, entered by Mike Sommers on 08.04.1999, edited by Jocelyn Sessa
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gnathostomata | |
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Echinoidea | |
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Scaphopoda | |
Cadulus sp. Philippi 1844 tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
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Euspira jacksonensis Harris and Palmer 1947 moon snail | |
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Calyptraphorus stamineus snail | |
Turritella sp., "Turritella arenicola" = Kapalmerella arenicola, "Turritella alveata" = Kapalmerella alveata
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell
"Turritella arenicola" = Kapalmerella arenicola Conrad 1865 turret shell
"Turritella alveata" = Kapalmerella alveata Conrad 1854 turret shell | |
Retusa jacksonensis snail | |
Bivalvia | |
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Eburneopecten scintillatus Conrad 1854 scallop | |
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"Glycymeris idoneus" = Glycymeris idonea
"Glycymeris idoneus" = Glycymeris idonea Conrad 1865 clam originally entered as "Glycymerus idoneus"
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Saxolucina gaufia, "Lucina curta" = Myrtaea (Myrtaea) curta
Saxolucina gaufia Harris 1946 clam
"Lucina curta" = Myrtaea (Myrtaea) curta Conrad 1865 clam | |
Abra nitens Lea 1833 abra | |
Tellinidae indet. Blainville 1814 tellin clam | |
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Spisula jacksonensis clam | |
Alveinus minutus Conrad 1865 clam | |
Pitar securiformis Conrad 1865 venus clam
Callista annexa Conrad 1865 venus clam | |
Caestocorbula wailesiana, "Corbula willistoni" = Caryocorbula willistoni
"Corbula willistoni" = Caryocorbula willistoni Meyer 1885 clam | |
Bathytormus flexurus Conrad 1854 clam
Crassinella pygmaea clam | |
Pleuromeris inflator, "Venericardia parva" = Venericardia (Pleuromeris) parva, Venericardia apodensata
"Venericardia parva" = Venericardia (Pleuromeris) parva Lea 1833 clam | |
"Nucula sphenopsis" = Nucula (Nucula) sphenopsis
"Nucula sphenopsis" = Nucula (Nucula) sphenopsis Conrad 1865 nut clam | |
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Yoldia sp. Möller 1842 clam |