Also known as SE Pontotoc; USGS # 6469

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, lower Member (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.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

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

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: original calcite

Reposited in the USGS

• Stephenson collection

Primary reference: N. F. Sohl and C. F. Koch. 1983. Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) Mollusca from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the East Gulf Coastal Plain. USGS Open File Report 83-451:1-239 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 4119: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 14.08.1999

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