North bank of Town Creek under the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio railroad bridge (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Hinds County, Mississippi (32.3° N, 90.2° W: paleocoordinates 33.5° N, 79.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Moodys Branch Formation (Jackson Group), Middle Eocene (47.8 - 37.7 Ma)

• The oldest specimens (specimens 1 and 2) are from the late middle Eocene Moodys Branch Formation of the basal Jackson Group

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray, silty claystone

• Most of the fossils that Dockery reports are from the Clay Bed: "A silty, dark to light gray clay containing lenses of well-preserved fossils and irregular, cylindrical burrows preserved as clay-ironstone bodies."

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. T. Dockery. 1977. Mollusca of the Moodys Branch Formation, Mississippi. Bulletin - Mississippi Geological, Economic and Topographic Survey 120 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176337: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 08.02.2016

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Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Eocypraeidae
"Notoluponia ampla n. sp." = Sphaerocypraea jacksonensis
"Notoluponia ampla n. sp." = Sphaerocypraea jacksonensis Johnson 1899 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
Austrocypraea towncreekensis n. sp.
Austrocypraea towncreekensis n. sp. Dockery 1977 cowry