Also known as MCl-6-b

Where: Clarke County, Mississippi (32.0° N, 88.7° W: paleocoordinates 33.3° N, 77.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: late zone, Doby's Bluff Tongue Member (Kosciusko Formation), Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)

• thin shelly bed above main shell bed - probable storm bed

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: interdistributary bay; unlithified, graded, glauconitic, argillaceous sandstone

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite, original phosphate

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: L. C. Ivany. 1997. Faunal stability and environmental change in the middle Eocene Gulf Coastal Plain (PhD Thesis, Harvard University). 1-221 [L. Ivany/L. Ivany/A. Clement]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 2415: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Linda Ivany on 03.07.1999, edited by Jocelyn Sessa

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