Also known as N Starkville; USGS # 25437
Where: Okitibbeha County, Mississippi (33.5° N, 88.8° W: paleocoordinates 37.1° N, 66.4° 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; lithified, gray, sandy lime mudstone
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 4159: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 14.08.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Cucullaea (Idonearca) capax" = Idonearca capax
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Pycnodonte vesicularis, "Exogyra costata" = Exogyra (Exogyra) costata
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