UCR (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Dockery Union County

Where: Dockery County, Mississippi (33.9° N, 96.8° W: paleocoordinates 39.2° N, 74.1° W)

When: Ripley Formation (Selma Group), Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Christopher Garvie

Primary reference: W. J. Foster, C. L. Garvie, A. M. Weiss, A. D. Muscente, M. Aberhan, J. W. Counts, and R. C. Martindale. 2020. Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals. Scientific Reports 10:2176 [A. Miller/J. Sessa/W. Foster]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 205536: authorized by William Foster, entered by William Foster on 15.10.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella vertebroides
Turritella vertebroides Morton 1834 turret shell
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Sargana stantoni
Sargana stantoni Weller 1907 murex snail
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Volutomorpha producta
Volutomorpha producta Sohl 1964 volute
 Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Paleopsephaea mutabilis, Hercorhyncus (Hercorhyncus) tippanus
Paleopsephaea mutabilis Wade 1926 snail
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Aliofusus sp.
Aliofusus sp. Stephenson 1941 true whelk
 Neogastropoda - Paladmetidae
Paladmete gardnerae
Paladmete gardnerae Wade snail
pymae
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Euspira rectilabrum
Euspira rectilabrum Conrad 1858 moon snail
Bivalvia
 Carditida - Crassatellidae
"Crassatellites sp." = Crassatella
"Crassatellites sp." = Crassatella Lamarck 1799 clam