Where: Rankin County, Mississippi (32.3° N, 90.0° W: paleocoordinates 32.6° N, 83.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Mint Spring Formation, Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)
• The Mint Spring Formation consists of fossiliferous sands that lie disconformably above the estuarine clays and sands of the Forest Hill Formation. This contact is characterized by shell gravels that are largely comprised of the bivalve "Callista", by lithified clay clasts bored by the bivalve "Jouannetia", and by shark and ray teeth. Lithified clay clasts are especially common at the base of the Mint Spring Formation along the Chickasawhay River in Wayne County. Here clay clasts are numerous enough to form a cobble bottom on the Mint Spring sea floor. These clasts formed a hard substrate utilized by a variety of encrusting organisms. The sands of the Mint Spring Formation are moderately clean and often show cross-bedding. These sands indicate a near-shore shelf enviroment and have macrofauna dominated by bivalves.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, conglomeratic, calcareous conglomerate and wackestone
Size class: mesofossils
Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite
Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,
• bivalves only.
Primary reference: D. T. Dockery. 1982. Lower Oligocene Bivalvia of the Vicksburg Group in Mississippi. Mississippi Department of Natural Resources Bureau of Geology 123:1-261 [L. Ivany/S. DeLong/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 5942: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Sarah DeLong on 01.01.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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•Categories are listed in the comments field, absolute abundances are given in the abundance field.
•Since taxa with greater than 99 specimens were not counted with absolute abundances, these were reported with category "A" for abundant.
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Amonia microstriata n. sp.
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Arcoperna linteata n. sp.
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"Barbatia mississippiensis" = Barbatia (Cucullaearca) mississippiensis, Scapharca delicatula
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"Pecten poulsoni" = Pecten (Pecten) poulsoni, "Spondylus filiaris" = Spondylus (Spondylus) filiaris
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Astarte menthifontis n. sp.
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"Venericardia carsonensis" = Venericardia (Rotundicardia) carsonensis
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Lucina fimbripallium n. sp., Lucina varisculpta n. sp., Anodontia mississippiensis, Myrtea vicksburgensis, Lucina imbricolamella n. sp., "Divaricella subrigaultiana" = Divaricella (Divalinga) subrigaultiana
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"Corbula laqueata" = Varicorbula laqueata, Tiza alta
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Laevicardium leptorimum n. sp., Trachycardium planicostata n. sp.
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Tellina subprotexta n. sp.
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Coralliophaga corrugata n. sp.
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Callista sobrina, "Chione victoria" = Lirophora (Lirophora) victoria, Pitar calcanea, Pitar protena n. sp.
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"Semivertagus menthafontis n. sp." = Clava (Semivertagus)
"Semivertagus menthafontis n. sp." = Clava (Semivertagus) cerith snail |