Also known as Calloway Cr; USGS # 32320

Where: Pontotoc County, Mississippi (34.2° N, 89.0° W: paleocoordinates 37.8° N, 66.4° W)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Gansserina gansseri foram zone, Chiwapa Formation, Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• No forams have been recovered from this unit, it is assigned to the Gansserina gansseri zone by Mancini et al. (1996) by sequence stratigraphy and the biostratigraphy of surrounding units. Haustator bilira assemblage zone.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, glauconitic, calcareous sandstone

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: original calcite, replaced with calcite

Reposited in the USGS

Collection methods: bulk,

• Sohl collection

Primary reference: N. F. Sohl and C. F. Koch. 1987. Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) larger invertebrates from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the Atlantic Coastal Plain with further data for the East Gulf. USGS Open File Report 87-194:1-172 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 4113: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 14.08.1999

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