Also known as E Bakers X-Roads; USGS # 25516
Where: Union County, Mississippi (34.5° N, 88.9° W: paleocoordinates 38.1° N, 66.3° W)
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Discoscaphites conradi ammonoid zone, lower Member (Prairie Bluff Formation), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• Haustator bilira assemblage zone
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; 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 4135: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 14.08.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Exogyra costata" = Exogyra (Exogyra) costata
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"Turritella (Sohlitella) trilira" = Turritella trilira Conrad 1860 turret shell Turritella (Sohlitella) trilira (C
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Euspira cf. rectilabrum Conrad 1858 moon snail Euspira cf. Euspira rectilabrum (C - originally entered as "Euspira cf. rectilabrum"
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Lowenstamia cf. subplanus murex snail Lowenstamia cf. L. subplanus (Gabb - originally entered as "Lowenstamia cf. subplanus"
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