PBDB Collection

Sohl Coffee 10 (Cretaceous to of the United States)

Where: Prentiss County, Mississippi (34.6° N, 88.6° W: paleocoordinates 37.4° N, 60.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Globotruncanita elevata foram zone, upper? Member (Coffee Sand Formation), 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).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; concretionary lithology not reported

• float concretions

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: USGS 6907 L. W. Stephenson 1910.

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 6664: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 12.03.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• taxonomy partially updated by Jablonski and Kosnik

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Gastropoda
Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae	aff. Pugnellus densatus aff. Pugnellus densatus snail Pugnellus aff. P. densatus Conrad
Neogastropoda - Buccinidae	aff. Buccinopsis crassus aff. Buccinopsis crassus true whelk Buccinopsis aff. B. crassus (Wade)
Bivalvia
Nuculida - Nuculidae	cf. Nucula amica cf. Nucula amica Gardner 1916 nut clam Nucula cf. N. amica Gardner
Ostreida - Ostreidae	Ostrea plumosa Ostrea plumosa Morton 1833 oyster Ostrea plumosa Morton
Ostreida - Gryphaeidae	Exogyra sp. Exogyra sp. Say 1820 oyster Exogyra sp.
Ostreida - Pinnidae	? Pinna sp. ? Pinna sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster Pinna? sp.
Arcida - Cucullaeidae	Cucullaea ? wadei Cucullaea ? wadei clam Idonearca wadei Imlay?
Arcida - Parallelodontidae	Nemodon sp. Nemodon sp. Conrad 1869 clam Nemodon sp. (large) (Sohl 331C)
Arcida - Arcidae	? Barbatia sp. ? Barbatia sp. Gray 1842 clam Barbatia? sp.
Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae	Pholadomya sp. Pholadomya sp. Sowerby 1823 clam Pholadomya
Cardiida - Veneridae	Aphrodina regia Aphrodina regia venus clam Aphrodina regia Conrad
Cardiida - Cardiidae	Pleuriocardia sp., "Pachycardium ? stantoni" = Protocardia (Pachycardium) Pleuriocardia sp. Scott 1978 cockle Trachycardium sp. "Pachycardium ? stantoni" = Protocardia (Pachycardium) cockle Pachycardium stantoni (Wade)?