Where: Clarke County, Mississippi (31.9° N, 88.7° W: paleocoordinates 32.6° N, 79.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Moodys Branch Formation, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)
• supposedly "Auversian"; stage assignment based on Baum et al. 1994; Section MCl-1
•Moodys Branch=Bartonian (JAS 14 October 2010)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone
Size class: mesofossils
Primary reference: L. D. Toulmin. 1977. Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region. Geological Survey of Alabama, Monograph 13(1):1-602 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 3531: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 04.08.1999, edited by Selina Cole and Austin Hendy
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Anthozoa | |
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Endopachys maclurii Lea 1833 stony coral | |
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| Echinoidea | |
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Periarchus lyelli Conrad 1834 sand dollar | |
| unclassified | |
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| Ostracoda | |
"Cytheridea (Haplocytheridea) montgomeryensis" = Cytheridea montgomeryensis2, "Cytheridea (Clithrocytheridea) garretti" = Cytheridea garretti2, "Cytheridea (Clithrocytheridea) grigsbyi" = Cytheridea grigsbyi2
"Cytheridea (Haplocytheridea) montgomeryensis" = Cytheridea montgomeryensis2 Howe and Chambers 1935 ostracod | |
| Gastropoda | |
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Tornatellaea lata Conrad 1834 snail | |
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Euspira jacksonensis Harris and Palmer 1947 moon snail
Polinices weisbordi moon snail | |
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Pleurofusia fluctuosa Harris 1937 turrid | |
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Calyptraphorus stamineus snail | |
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Galeodea petersoni Conrad 1854 snail | |
Turritella sp., Turritella perdita, "Turritella arenicola" = Kapalmerella arenicola, Mesalia vetusta
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell
Turritella perdita Conrad 1865 turret shell
"Turritella arenicola" = Kapalmerella arenicola Conrad 1865 turret shell
Mesalia vetusta Conrad 1833 turret shell | |
| Bivalvia | |
"Nucula (Nucula) spheniopsis" = Nucula (Nucula) sphenopsis1
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Teredo mississippiensis Conrad 1854 clam | |
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Caestocorbula sp. Vincent 1910 clam | |
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Gari jacksonensis clam | |
"Tellina eburneopsis" = Tellina (Arcopagia) eburneopsis, Tellina linifera
"Tellina eburneopsis" = Tellina (Arcopagia) eburneopsis Conrad 1865 tellin clam
Tellina linifera tellin clam | |
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Callista annexa Conrad 1865 venus clam
Pitar securiformis Conrad 1865 venus clam | |
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Spisula sp. Gray 1837 clam | |
"Venericardia diversidentata" = Venericardia (Rotundicardia) diversidentata
"Venericardia diversidentata" = Venericardia (Rotundicardia) diversidentata Meyer 1885 clam | |
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Bathytormus flexurus Conrad 1854 clam | |
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Glycymeris filosa Conrad 1854 clam | |
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Eburneopecten scintillatus Conrad 1854 scallop | |