USGS 451063. Roadcut on northeast-facing slope of Hall Creek (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Tippah County, Mississippi (34.6° N, 88.9° W: paleocoordinates 38.3° N, 65.7° W)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Coon Creek Member (Ripley Formation), Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USGS, USNM

Primary reference: G. L. Wingard. 1993. A detailed taxonomy of Upper Cretaceous and Lower Tertiary Crassatellidae in the Eastern United States - an example of the nature of extinction at the boundary. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1535 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 228753: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 03.01.2023

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Carditida - Crassatellidae
Bathytormus "sp. A" Stewart 1930 clam
Bathytormus pteropsis Conrad 1860 clam
Crassatella "sp. A" Lamarck 1799 clam
Crassatella vadosa Morton 1834 clam