Also known as Yancy Hill; USGS # 26354

Where: Tippah County, Mississippi (34.7° N, 88.9° W: paleocoordinates 38.3° N, 66.1° W)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Discoscaphites iris ammonoid zone, lower Member (Owl Creek Formation), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• Haustator bilira assemblage zone

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

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

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: original calcite

Reposited in the USGS

Collection methods: bulk,

• Sohl 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 4124: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 14.08.1999

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