Also known as H-80-8
Where: Clarke County, Mississippi (31.9° N, 88.7° W: paleocoordinates 32.7° N, 79.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• 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, silty, sandy, calcareous claystone
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 Unpublished M.A. Thesis, University of Texas at Austin 1-140 [T. Hansen/M. Sommers/A. Clement]more details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 1433: authorized by Thor Hansen, entered by Mike Sommers on 13.04.1999, edited by Jocelyn Sessa
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bryozoa | |
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Bivalvia | |
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Hilgardia multilineata Conrad 1854 pointed nut clam
Calorhadia mater Meyer 1885 pointed nut clam | |
Nucula smithvillensis, "Nucula spheniopsis" = Nucula (Nucula) sphenopsis
Nucula smithvillensis Stenzel and Twining 1957 nut clam
"Nucula spheniopsis" = Nucula (Nucula) sphenopsis Conrad 1865 nut clam | |
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Eburneopecten scintillatus Conrad 1854 scallop | |
Limopsis radiata Meyer 1885 clam | |
Pleuromeris inflatior, "Venericardia diversidentata" = Venericardia (Rotundicardia) diversidentata
"Venericardia diversidentata" = Venericardia (Rotundicardia) diversidentata Meyer 1885 clam | |
Bathytormus flexurus Conrad 1854 clam
Crassinella pygmaea clam | |
Verticordia cossmanni Dall 1903 clam | |
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"Spisula jacksonesis" = Spisula jacksonensis
"Spisula jacksonesis" = Spisula jacksonensis clam | |
Callista annexa Conrad 1865 venus clam
Pitar securiformis Conrad 1865 venus clam | |
Alveinus minutus Conrad 1865 clam | |
Corbula densata Conrad 1854 clam | |
"Lucina curta" = Myrtaea (Myrtaea) curta
"Lucina curta" = Myrtaea (Myrtaea) curta Conrad 1865 clam | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
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Retusa jacksonensis snail | |
Mnestia meyeri Cossmann 1893 snail | |
Clio simplex Meyer 1886 snail | |
"Calyptraea aperta" = Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta
"Calyptraea aperta" = Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta Solander 1766 slipper shell originally entered as "Calyptrea aperta"
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Euspira jacksonensis Harris and Palmer 1947 moon snail | |
"Turritella alveata" = Kapalmerella alveata, "Turritella arenicola" = Kapalmerella arenicola, Turritella ? perdita
"Turritella alveata" = Kapalmerella alveata Conrad 1854 turret shell
"Turritella arenicola" = Kapalmerella arenicola Conrad 1865 turret shell | |
Bittium koeneni cerith snail | |
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Gnathostomata | |
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Echinoidea | |
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