Where: Lowndes County, Mississippi (33.5° N, 88.5° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 37.6° N, 49.6° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Scaphites leei ammonoid zone, Tombigbee Sand Member (Eutaw Formation), Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; glauconitic sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USGS

Primary reference: W. J. Kennedy and W. A. Cobban. 1991. Upper Cretaceous (upper Santonian) Boehmoceras fauna from the Gulf Coast region of the United States. Geological Magazine 128(2):167-189 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3584: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 05.08.1999, edited by Matthew Carrano

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