Where: Warren County, Mississippi (32.4° N, 90.8° W: paleocoordinates 32.8° N, 84.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Byram Formation (Vicksburg Group), Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)

• The Byram Formation is exposed nearly in its entirety at Keyes Scrap Metal Yard. Units recognized at this locality are classified as A through H going up section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, silty, sandy siliciclastic sediments

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

Primary reference: C. C. Visaggi. 2004. Testing for patterns of faunal persistence in the early Oligocene Byram Formation of Mississippi. Syracuse University [L. Ivany/C. Visaggi]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 66307: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Christy Visaggi on 07.10.2006

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