Sohl and Koch OFR # 89 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as W Horse Ck Bridge; USGS # 17241

Where: Noxubee County, Mississippi (33.1° N, 88.7° W: paleocoordinates 36.7° N, 66.4° W)

• outcrop-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, argillaceous, sandy lime mudstone

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: original calcite

Reposited in the USGS

• others 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 4162: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 14.08.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Nautilidae
"Eutrephoceras perlata" = Eutrephoceras perlatus
"Eutrephoceras perlata" = Eutrephoceras perlatus Morton 1834 nautiloid
Eutrephoceras perlata Morton
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Gyrodes abyssinus moon snail
Gyrodes abyssinus (Morton)
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Buccinopsis sp. Conrad 1857 true whelk
Buccinopsis sp.
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae
Anchura ? noakensis snail
Anchura noakensis? Stephenson - originally entered as "Anchura noakensis ?"
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Spondylus (Spondylus) sp. n. sp. Linnaeus 1758 scallop
Spondylus (Spondylus) n. sp. - originally entered as "Spondylus n. sp."
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Arctostrea falacata oyster
Arctostrea falacata (Gabb)
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Pycnodonte vesicularis Lamarck 1806 oyster
Pycnodonte vesicularis Lamarck
Gryphaeostrea vomer Morton 1828 oyster
Gryphaeostrea vomer Morton
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
"Cucullaea (Idonearca) capax" = Idonearca capax
"Cucullaea (Idonearca) capax" = Idonearca capax Conrad 1858 clam
Cucullaea (Idonearca) capax Conrad
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
"Dictyarea indet." = Dictyaraea
"Dictyarea indet." = Dictyaraea Reuss 1867 stony coral
cf. Dictyarea