Sohl Coffee 12 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Alcorn County, Mississippi (34.9° N, 88.5° W: paleocoordinates 37.7° N, 59.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Globotruncana ventricosa foram zone, upper Member (Coffee Sand Formation), Middle Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• upper Coffee Sand is Globotruncana ventricosa zone according to Mancini et al. (1996).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: USGS 9497 L. W. Stephenson 1915.

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 6666: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 12.03.2000

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Taxonomic list

• taxonomy partially updated by Jablonski and Kosnik
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Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Pycnodonte mutabilis, Gryphaeostrea vomer, Gryphaea convexa, Exogyra ponderosa
Pycnodonte mutabilis oyster
Gryphaea mutabilis Morton
Gryphaeostrea vomer Morton 1828 oyster
Gryphaeostrea vomer (Morton)
Gryphaea convexa oyster
Gryphaea convexa (Say)
Exogyra ponderosa oyster
Exogyra ponderosa Roemer
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Gervilliopsis sp.
Gervilliopsis sp. Whitfield 1885 oyster
Gervilliopsis sp.
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
Paranomia scabra
Paranomia scabra scallop
Paranomia scabra (Morton)
 Pectinida - Limidae
? Lima sp.
? Lima sp. Bruguière 1797 file clam
Lima? sp.
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
Veniella conradi, cf. Etea carolinensis
Veniella conradi Morton 1833 clam
Veniella conradi (Morton)
cf. Etea carolinensis Conrad 1875 clam
Etea cf. E. carolinensis Stephenson
 Pandorida - Clavagellidae
Ascaulocardium sp.
Ascaulocardium sp. Pojeta and N. F 1987 clam
Kummelia sp.