Also known as Montpelier Area; USGS # 31481
Where: Clay County, Mississippi (33.7° N, 88.9° W: paleocoordinates 37.3° N, 66.5° W)
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Discoscaphites conradi ammonoid zone, upper Member (Prairie Bluff Formation), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• Haustator bilira assemblage zone
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; gray 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 4170: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 14.08.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Turritella (Sohlitella) trilira" = Turritella trilira Conrad 1860 turret shell Turritella (Sohlitella) trilira (C
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"Cucullaea (Idonearca) capax" = Idonearca capax
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"Lima (Lima) reticulata" = Lima reticulata
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Chlamys (Radiopecten) mississippensis, Camptonectes (Camptonectes) bubonis, Camptonectes (Camptonectes) sp.
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Protocardia (Pachycardium) spillmani cockle Protocardium (Pachycardium) spillm - originally entered as "Protocardium spillmani"
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