Riverside Park (H-79-11-11) (Eocene to of the United States)

Also known as (H-79-11)

Where: Hinds County, Mississippi (32.3° N, 90.2° W: paleocoordinates 33.2° N, 80.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Yazoo Clay 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, silty, calcareous shale

• "very poor preservation, shells were identified and counted by sorting through the sediment by hand. too fragile to be sieved."

Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,

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 Unpublished M.A. Thesis, University of Texas at Austin 1-140 [T. Hansen/M. Sommers/A. Clement]more details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 1427: authorized by Thor Hansen, entered by Mike Sommers on 13.04.1999, edited by Jocelyn Sessa

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
misc. gastropods, 2 species?
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell
 Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Calyptraea sp. Lamarck 1799 slipper shell
originally entered as "Calyptrea sp."
 Sorbeoconcha - Hipponicidae
Hipponix pygmaea hoof shell
Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Arcidae
Barbatia sp. Gray 1842 clam
 Arcida - Limopsidae
Limopsis radiata Meyer 1885 clam
 Poromyida - Verticordiidae
? Verticordia cossmanni Dall 1903 clam
originally entered as "? Verticordia cossmanni"
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbula sp. Bruguière 1789 clam
 Cardiida - Kelliellidae
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Nemocardium nicolletti Conrad 1854 cockle
 Cardiida - Semelidae
? Abra sp. Lamarck 1818 abra
originally entered as "? Abra sp."
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellinidae indet. Blainville 1814 tellin clam
Tellinids
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
"? Lucina curta" = Myrtaea (Myrtaea) curta
"? Lucina curta" = Myrtaea (Myrtaea) curta Conrad 1865 clam
originally entered as "? Lucina curta"
 Carditida - Carditidae
"Venericardia diversidentata" = Venericardia (Rotundicardia) diversidentata
"Venericardia diversidentata" = Venericardia (Rotundicardia) diversidentata Meyer 1885 clam
 Carditida - Crassatellidae
Bathytormus flexurus Conrad 1854 clam
 Carditida - Astartidae
Lirodiscus jacksonensis Meyer 1885 clam
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana sp. Link 1807 pointed nut clam
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799 nut clam
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Flabellidae
Flabellum cuneiforme Lonsdale 1845 stony coral
wailesii