Where: Tishomingo County, Mississippi (34.8° N, 88.3° W: paleocoordinates 37.6° N, 59.6° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Globotruncanita elevata foram zone, Coffee Sand Formation (Selma Group), Early/Lower Campanian to Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• Coffee Sand ranges from the Globotruncanita elevata to Globotruncana ventricosa zone according to Mancini et al. (1996).

•near base of formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; concretionary sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: USGS 6461 L. W. Stephenson 1909

Primary reference: N. F. Sohl. 1964. Gastropods from the coffee Sand (Upper Cretaceous) of Mississippi. USGS Professional Paper 331C:345-394 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 6659: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 12.03.2000

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