LACMIP loc. 8063, Coon Creek (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as CIT loc. 703

Where: McNairy County, Tennessee (35.3° N, 88.4° W: paleocoordinates 38.9° N, 65.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ripley Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by W. P. Popenoe in 1929; reposited in the LACM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: M. X. Kirby and L. R. Saul. 1995. The Tethyan bivalve Roudairia from the Upper Cretaceous of California. Palaeontology 38(1):23-38 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 69308: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 24.02.2007, edited by Jonathan Marcot

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
Veniella conradi Morton 1833 clam