USGS 6853, Pontotoc (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Pontotoc County, Mississippi (34.2° N, 89.0° W: paleocoordinates 37.8° N, 66.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Prairie Bluff Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray, calcareous sandstone

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: original calcite

Collected by L.W. Stephenson; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: C. W. Cooke. 1953. American Upper Cretaceous Echinoidea. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 254-A:1-44 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 197606: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 17.11.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
Hemiaster wetherbyi de Loriol 1887 heart urchin
 Spatangoida - Schizasteridae
Linthia variabilis Slocom 1909 heart urchin
 Spatangoida - Micrasteridae
Micraster americanus Stephenson 1941 heart urchin