Where: Hinds County, Mississippi (32.3° N, 90.2° W: paleocoordinates 33.1° N, 81.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Moodys Branch Formation (Jackson Group), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified siliciclastic sediments
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 178662: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 09.05.2016, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Anthozoa | |
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Endopachys maclurii Lea 1833 stony coral | |
| Bivalvia | |
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Glycymeris (Glycymeris) filosa Conrad 1854 clam | |
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Barbatia (Cucullaearca) cuculloides Conrad 1833 clam | |
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Pycnodonte (Pycnodonte) trigonalis Conrad 1854 oyster | |
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Venericardia (Venericor) apodensata Gardner and Bowles 1939 clam | |
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Pitar (Katherinella) trigoniata venus clam | |
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Gastrochaena (Gastrochaena) mississippiensis Harris 1946 clam | |
"Yoldia (Orthoyoldia) rubamnis" = Orthoyoldia
"Yoldia (Orthoyoldia) rubamnis" = Orthoyoldia pointed nut clam | |
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Yoldia (Calorhadia) mater Meyer 1885 clam | |
| Cephalopoda | |
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Aturia alabamensis Morton 1834 nautiloid | |
| Gastropoda | |
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Tornatellaea lata Conrad 1834 snail | |
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Tenuiscala aspersa wentletrap | |
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Jenneria ludoviciana Johnson 1899 snail | |
"Busycon (Echinofulgur) branneri" = Busycon
"Busycon (Echinofulgur) branneri" = Busycon whelk | |
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Agaronia media Meyer 1885 snail | |
Calyptraphorus stamineus, "Dientomochilus (Dasyostoma) rugostomum" = Dasyostoma rugostoma
Calyptraphorus stamineus snail
"Dientomochilus (Dasyostoma) rugostomum" = Dasyostoma rugostoma Johnson 1899 snail | |
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Seraphs sp. Montfort 1810 snail | |