Also known as Sohl and Koch OFR # 59

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

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• 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; lithified, gray, calcareous sandstone

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: original calcite

Collected by L.W. Stephenson; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: C. W. Cooke. 1953. American Upper Cretaceous Echinoidea. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 254-A:1-44 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 4138: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 14.08.1999

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