Also known as MNe-3-a1

Where: Newton County, Mississippi (32.3° N, 89.2° W: paleocoordinates 33.0° N, 80.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Archusa Marl Member (Cook Mountain Formation), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• probably close to top of Archusa Marl - overlying Potterchitto Mbr is well-exposed across the street

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; unlithified, glauconitic marl

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite

Collection methods: bulk, mechanical, sieve,

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 2436: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Linda Ivany on 05.07.1999

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