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 | |
Bathytormus "sp. A" Stewart 1930 clam
Bathytormus pteropsis Conrad 1860 clam
Crassatella "sp. A" Lamarck 1799 clam
Crassatella vadosa Morton 1834 clam |